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Also see cattle, and cf. sense development of fee, pecuniary.
“head of a column or pillar,” late 13c., from Anglo-French capitel, Old French chapitel, or directly from Latin capitellum “little head,” diminutive of caput (see capitulum).
In architecture, the top portion of a column.
Money used to finance the purchase of the means of production, such as machines, or the machines themselves.
see make capital out of.