capelán

== Galician == === Alternative forms === capelám, capelão (reintegrationist) === Etymology === From Old Galician-Portuguese capelan (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), probably from Old Occitan capelan, from Late Latin cappellanus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kapeˈlaŋ/ [kɑ.peˈlɑŋ] Rhymes: -aŋ Hyphenation: ca‧pe‧lán === Noun === capelán m (plural capeláns) chaplain ==== Related terms ==== === References === Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “capelan”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “capelán”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “capelán”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “capelán”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega == Spanish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Middle French capelan, from Late Latin cappellānus (“chaplain”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kapeˈlan/ [ka.peˈlãn] Rhymes: -an Syllabification: ca‧pe‧lán === Noun === capelán m (plural capelanes) capelin === Further reading === “capelán”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025