chapel
English
/ˈtʃæ.pəl/, /ˈtʃæ.pəl/
noun
Definitions
- (especially) A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
- A place of worship in another building or within a civil institution such as a larger church, airport, prison, monastery, school, etc.; often primarily for private prayer.
- A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
- (UK) A trade union branch in printing or journalism.
- A printing office.
- A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French chapele derived from Latin cappella.
Origin
Latin
cappella
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Chapeltown English
- antechapel English
- chapel-goer English
- chapelgoer English
- chapelless English
- chapelman English
- chapelmaster English
- chapelry English
- chapelwarden English
- free English
- freechapel English
- goer English
- man English
- master English
- minichapel English
- town English
- warden English
- kappeli Finnish
- cappa Latin
- cappella Latin
- cappellanus Latin
- cappella Italian
- capilla Spanish, Castilian
- kapell Norwegian Bokmål
- kapell Swedish
- kapela Polish
- kapell Norwegian Nynorsk
- kapella Old Norse
- chapele Old French
- capel Welsh
- kappella Old High German
- chapelle Norman
- chapelle Middle French
- capela Old Portuguese
- capiella Asturian
- capele Friulian
- capella Old Occitan
- sáipél, seipél, séipél, saipél Middle Irish
- capeła Venetian
- txapel Basque
- chaipâle Bourguignon