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Kap  method, the accent is retained in  chapëlla,  kapëlle, and the  form. It is true that in káppelle ( käppelle), with the  accent also occurs, and hence the , , frequent names of villages. capella has a peculiar history; as a of capa  it signified ‘a cape’; the chapel itself, in which the cloak of St. Martin and other relics were preserved, first obtained the name of capella; then from about the 7th  the use of the word became general. —   ,, ‘chaplain,’ from kappellãn,. It is based on capellânus, which  denoted the priest who had to guard the cloak of St. Martin. — capella also signifies the body of priests under a bishop, hence the other meanings of.    (2.),, ‘cupel,’ only; it is based upon a combination of  capella,  chapelle, ‘lid of an alembic,’ and  cupella,  coupelle, ‘cupel, crucible’ ( of  cupa).   ,, ‘pirate,’ from the  kaper.   ,, ‘chapter,’ from kapítel, ‘solemn assembly, convention,’  capítal, capítul, ‘inscription.’  capitulum has also both these meanings.  ,, ‘broken, destroyed,’ only; according to the general acceptation it is not allied to  , but is rather derived from  kappârâh, ‘reconciliation, atonement.’  ,, ‘hood, cowl’; the meaning kappe, , upon which it is based, does not correspond very often with that of , its usual signification being ‘a garment shaped like a cloak and fitted with a cowl as a covering for the head’; hence , which has first been made current in  in this century through the revival by scholars of the  tornkappe ( ‘the cloak that makes the wearer invisible’). chappa; cœppe, ‘cloak,’  cap. The double sense of the word appears in the  and  cappa, ‘cloak, cap,’ on which it is based (on the  form câpa is based  cope, from  cope, as well as  kápa, ‘cloak’). With regard to the meaning  chape (cape), ‘cope, scabbard, sheath, case,’ and the derivatives chapeau, ‘hat,’ and chaperon, ‘cowl.’ The  word was adopted by the more civilised  classes of Europe, passing into  as well as into  and. The word was not borrowed, or rather not naturalised before the 8th, for an earlier borrowed term would have been *chapfa in and *kapfe in  —.  ,, ‘to chop, lop,’ simply, from  kappen, ‘to split’;   kappe and  chap. In UpAlsat. kchapfe is found with the form; allied also to the  graded forms kipfen, kippen; hence the  root kep, kapp.  ', ',, ‘headed cabbage,’ from the  kappaȥ, kappûs, kabeȥ,   chabuȥ, chapuȥ, directly connected with  caput, which strangely enough does not appear in  in the sense of ‘cabbage-head’;  capuccio (hence  cabus and  cabbage) presumes, however, a  derivative of caput in the sense of ‘cabbage-head, headed cabbage.’ The naturalisation of the  word in  may have been completed in the 7th  or so; by that time a number of  names of plants, as well as the art of cookery and gardening introduced from the South, was already firmly established in Germany.   ,, ‘cavezon,’ only, corrupted from  cavezzone, whence also  caveçon, ‘cavezon.’ <section end="Kappzaum" /> ,, ‘lost at play,’  simply, from  capot; faire capot, ‘to cause to lose,’ être capot, &c. The expression was introduced into  with a number of other terms  used at play. <section begin="Kapuze" /> ,, ‘cowl,’ only, from  capuccio, whence also  capuce;  capúcium;   ( capucinus). <section end="Kapuze" /> <section begin="Karat" /> ,, ‘carat,’ not derived fro gárât,  and , ‘carat,’ which in  must have been. The has been more probably borrowed anew from  carat or  caráto; the  word has adopted the  accent, while the  term preserves the accent of the  word upon which it is based. <section end="Karat" /> <section begin="Karausche" /> ,, ‘crucian,’ only; older variants, karaȥ, karûtsch; from  carassin, ‘crucian’?. also crucian, and its   coracino,  karósas,  karaš, Czech karas, which forms are nearer to  than to ; the final source is  κορακῖνος ( coracînus). <section end="Karausche" /> <section begin="Karbatsche" /> ,, ‘hunting-whip,’ <section end="Karbatsche" />