Where does “chapel” come from?
Chapel comes from Middle English chapelle, from Old French chapele, from Late Latin cappella, originally denoting a small cloak (Latin cappa) or a shrine containing one, ultimately derived from the Proto-Indo-European root kauput- meaning head.
chapel (English): A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate...
Definitions
- A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate...
Ancestry of “chapel”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | chapele | chapel |
| 2 | Latin | cappella | chapel; choir |
| 3 | Latin | -ella | inflection of -ellus: ## nominative/vocative... |
| 4 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 5 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |