A variant or alternative spelling of chapiter; the capital of a column (archaic or regional usage).
From Old French chapitel, a variant of chapiter, with the same Latin root capitellum meaning 'little head'.
Variant spellings like chapitle show how before standardized dictionaries and printing, people spelled words phonetically—you might see three different spellings of the same word in one medieval document!
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