Capitol
English
Etymology
From Middle English capitolie, capitole; formed from Middle French capitole (from Old French capitoile, chapitoile and Anglo-Norman capitolie, capitole, from Latin Capitōlium. Perhaps ultimately from caput "head".[1] As a French town hall, via French Capitole.
Proper noun
Capitol
- (historical) The temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill in ancient Rome.
- Any particular capitol building, particularly:
- The building in Washington, D.C., in which both houses of the Congress of the United States meet.
- 1963, Eisenhower, Dwight, Mandate for Change 1953-1956, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, LCCN 63-18447, OCLC 64309101, page 3:
- ON January 20, 1953, I stood on a platform at the East Front of the Capitol in Washington to take the oath, administered by Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, as the thirty-fourth President of the United States — an office I was to hold for eight years.
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- The town hall of Toulouse, France.
- The building in Washington, D.C., in which both houses of the Congress of the United States meet.
Translations
temple of Jupiter in Rome
legislative building in Washington, D.C.
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References
- “Capitol, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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