capitulum (plural capitula) may refer to:
the Latin word for chapter an index or list of chapters at the head of a gospel manuscript a short reading in the Liturgy of the Hours derived from which, it is the Latin for the assembly known as a chapter a typographic symbol (⸿), to mark chapters or paragraphs, now evolved into the pilcrow
Botany Capitulum (flower), a type of flower head composed of numerous tiny florets, characteristic of the family Asteraceae Capitulum (moss), the top of a Sphagnum moss plant with compact clusters of young branches; also the apothecium (fruiting body) of lichens of the order Calicium
Zoology the capitulum of the humerus in vertebrates the gnathosoma of ticks and mites in stalked barnacles, the armoured portion within which the appendages and most of the viscera are located Capitulum (genus), a genus of goose barnacles a part of the female Lepidoptera genitalia a structure similar to an elaiosome, found on the eggs of some species of stick insects
See also Capitulary, a type of legislative or administrative act issued by the Frankish court in the 9th century