capitoul
Pluralcapitouls
- 1One of the chief magistrates who formerly held office in the city of Toulouse, France.
Each newly chosen capitoul swore to uphold the privileges of Toulouse.
The merchants brought their quarrel over market rights before the capitouls.
Note
A title that belongs to one city's past and is met mainly in histories of Toulouse. The magistrates were named for the Capitole, the town's city hall founded in 1190, whose name looked back to the Roman Capitol and to the Latin capitulum, "charter" or "chapter". That makes capitoul a doublet of capitol: the same root, borrowed twice by different routes.
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Origin
From French capitoul, named after the Capitole de Toulouse, the town's city hall (established 1190). That name referred to the Roman Capitol and to the town's Latin capitulum ("charter; chapter"); the word is a doublet of capitol and Capitolium.