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capitulum (plural capitula) may refer to: the Latin word for chapter. an index or list of chapters at the head of a gospel manuscript; a short reading in the Liturgy of the Hours. derived from which, it is the Latin for the assembly known as a chapter; a typographic symbol (⸿), to mark chapters or paragraphs, now evolved into the pilcrow
The above notation soon changed to the letter K , an abbreviation for the Latin word caput, which translates as "head", i.e. it marks the head of a new thesis. [9] Eventually, to mark a new section, the Latin word capitulum, which translates as "little head", was used, and the letter C came to mark a new section, or chapter, [10] in 300 BC.
Illustration of the gnathosoma of an acarine, showing the subcapitulum. The subcapitulum (from Latin sub, "under", and capitulum, "small head"), also known as infracapitulum, [1] [2] hypognathum [3] or hipognatum, refers to the ventral part of the gnathosoma (the part of the body comprising the mouth and feeding parts) [4] or the fusion of the palpal (of the pedipalps, the second pair of ...
In human anatomy of the arm, the capitulum of the humerus is a smooth, rounded eminence on the lateral portion of the distal articular surface of the humerus. It articulates with the cup-shaped depression on the head of the radius , and is limited to the front and lower part of the bone.
In English, objects and complements nearly always come after the verb; a direct object precedes other complements such as prepositional phrases, but if there is an indirect object as well, expressed without a preposition, then that precedes the direct object: give me the book, but give the book to me.
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages). Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words.
Latin is a heavily inflected language with largely free word order. Nouns are inflected for number and case; pronouns and adjectives (including participles) are inflected for number, case, and gender; and verbs are inflected for person, number, tense, aspect, voice, and mood.
Latin word order is relatively free. The verb may be found at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of a sentence; an adjective may precede or follow its noun (vir bonus or bonus vir both mean 'a good man'); [5] and a genitive may precede or follow its noun ('the enemies' camp' can be both hostium castra and castra hostium; the latter is more common). [6]