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No, capulus is unrelated to caput. It is derived from the verb capere, "to take hold of", and has two basic meanings

  • a handle (as, for example, the hilt of a sword)
  • a tomb or sarcophagus (something that holds a body)

The diminutive of caput ("head") is capitulum.

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