Where does “kapitelo” come from?

kapitelo (Esperanto) comes from Italian capitello, from Latin capitellum, from Latin -ellus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

kapitelo (Esperanto): capital

Definitions

  1. capital

Ancestry of “kapitelo”, step by step

kapitelo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian capitello

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiancapitellocapital
2Latincapitellumsmall head; capital or chapiter of a column
3Latin-ellusAlternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine...
4Latin-ulusUsed to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating...
5Proto-Italic-olos
6Proto-Italic-elosForms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns
7Proto-Indo-European-e-lós
8Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots

via Spanish capitel

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishcapitelcapital
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -lósEvery word from Latin -ulusEvery word from Latin -ellus