different between chapel vs chancel

English

Etymology

From Middle English chapel, chapelle, from Old French chapele, from Late Latin cappella (“little cloak; chapel”), diminutive of cappa (“cloak, cape”). Doublet of capelle.

(printing office): Said to be because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?æ.p?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?æ.p?l/
• (US)
• Rhymes: -æp?l

Noun

chapel (plural chapels)

1. (especially Christianity) A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
2. 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.
3. A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
4. (Britain) A trade union branch in printing or journalism.
5. A printing office.
6. A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

chapel (not comparable)

1. (Wales) Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.

Verb

chapel (third-person singular simple present chapels, present participle chapelling, simple past and past participle chapelled)

1. (nautical, transitive) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) to turn or make a circuit so as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.

   • give us the bones Of our dead kings, that we may chapel them!

References

Anagrams

• Lepcha, cephal-, pleach

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *cappellus, diminutive of Late Latin cappa.

Noun

chapel m (oblique plural chapeaus or chapeax or chapiaus or chapiax or chapels, nominative singular chapeaus or chapeax or chapiaus or chapiax or chapels, nominative plural chapel)

1. hat (item of clothing used to cover the head)

Related terms

• chape

Descendants

• Gallo: chapai
• Middle French: chappeau
  • French: chapeau
• Norman: chape
• Walloon: tchapea

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ap?l/

Noun

chapel

1. aspirate mutation of capel

English

Alternative forms

• chauncel (archaic)

Etymology

From Old French chancel. Doublet of cancellus.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t???ns?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?æns?l/

Noun

chancel (plural chancels)

1. The space around the altar in a church, often enclosed, for use by the clergy and the choir. In medieval cathedrals the chancel was usually enclosed or blocked off from the nave by an altar screen.

Synonyms

• apse
• presbytery
• sanctuary

Translations

French

Alternative forms

• cancel, chanceau

Etymology

From Old French chancel, from Latin cancellus.

Noun

chancel m (plural chancels)

1. chancel

Further reading

• “chancel” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Alternative forms

• cancel

Etymology

From Latin cancellus.

Noun

chancel m (oblique plural chanceaus or chanceax or chanciaus or chanciax or chancels, nominative singular chanceaus or chanceax or chanciaus or chanciax or chancels, nominative plural chancel)

1. chancel

Descendants

• French: chancel, cancel, chanceau
• ? Breton: kañsell
• ? English: chancel, chauncel
• ? Scottish Gaelic: seansal
• ? Spanish: cancel