capitel

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian capitello. Doublet of cabedelo, coudel, caudilho, capitelo, and cadete.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.piˈtɛw/ [ka.piˈtɛʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.piˈtɛl/ [kɐ.piˈtɛɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.piˈtɛl/ [kɐ.piˈtɛɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.piˈtɛ.li/

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛl
• Hyphenation: ca‧pi‧tel

Noun

capitel m (plural capitéis)

1. (architecture) capital (uppermost part of a column)

Further reading

• “capitel”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “capitel”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian capitello or Latin capitellum.

Noun

capitel n (plural capiteluri)

1. (architecture) capital (uppermost part of a column)

Spanish

Un capitel jónico

Etymology

From Old Occitan capitel. Doublet of caudillo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kapiˈtel/ [ka.piˈt̪el]
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: ca‧pi‧tel

Noun

capitel m (plural capiteles)

1. (architecture) capital; chapiter (uppermost part of a column)
   • 1978, René Taylor, Arquitectura andaluza:

     El elemento más llamativo del revestimiento de yeso son sin duda alguna los capiteles de los pilares

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• capitel compuesto (composite capital)
• capitel corintio
• capitel dórico
• capitel jónico
• capitel toscano

Further reading

• “capitel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025