English: topographic name for someone who lived near a chapel,
from Middle English chapel(l)e ‘chapel’, via Old French, from
Late Latin capella, originally a diminutive of capa
‘hood’, ‘cloak’, but later transferred to the sense ‘chapel’,
‘sanctuary’, with reference to the shrine at Tours where the cloak of
St. Martin was preserved as a relic.
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