capitol

• (Washington D.C. building for U.S. Congress): Capitol (usually capitalized)

From Middle English capitoile, capitolie, from Anglo-Norman capitolie or capitoile, Middle French capitole, and Latin Capitōlium (“the Temple of Jupiter in Rome, the Capitoline Hill”), probably from caput (“head”).[1] As a French magistrate, via French capitoul.

The Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas, US

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæp.ɪ.təl/
• Hyphenation: cap‧i‧tol
• Homophone: capital

capitol (plural capitols)

1. (US) Any building or complex of buildings in which a legislature meets.

   The capitol building is located smack-dab in the middle of the state capital.

   • 1901 January 1, "Twentieth Century's Triumphant Entry", The New York Times, page 1:

     The centre of attraction was the City Hall. Two thousand flags and more ...; 2,000 electric lights... combined to make the civic capitol gorgeous... .

2. (historical) Alternative form of Capitol, the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill in Ancient Rome.
3. (historical) Alternative form of capitoul, the former chief magistrates of Toulouse, France.

• The homophone capital refers only to the city designated as a base for government; this government may meet at a capitol building.
• The capitalized form Capitol typically refers to a particular capitol building, particularly the US Capitol in Washington, D.C.

• (building in which a legislature meets): statehouse

• capital (the city in which the government center is located)
• Capitoline

• coalpit, lipcoat, optical, pit coal, topical

Borrowed from Italian capitolo, from Latin capitulum. Doublet of capitul.

• IPA^(key): /ka.piˈtol/

capitol n (plural capitole)

1. chapter (section of a book)

• capitol in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)