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We get the English word via old French chapitre from the Latin capitulum, a diminutive of caput, head.

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  1. preposition By way of: went to Pittsburgh via Philadelphia.
  2. preposition By means of: sent the letter via airmail.

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  • Using this patch, gamers can play the game in English via an emulator, experiencing those forbidden fruits previously withheld from Western eyes. —  chewing pixels
  • "I have given myself to God," Peña said in Spanish via a translator. —  Victoria Advocate stories: News
  • Today Palm -- via a short keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo -- announced that the company would begin taking names and numbers on the webOS dev site for potential developers who will receive an "early look" Mojo SDK. —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • Drury later added that he feels Avery is a marked man, and that he has "played extremely hard and clean since he's been back." pointed out -- via Dirk Hoag of On The Forecheck -- Avery has actually drawn more penalties than he's been called for since returning to the Rangers, a fact that seems to shoot a gigantic hole in the "marked man" argument being made by the Rangers. —  FanHouse
  • In the Tagesspiegel and in German, via recipients of 2005 Texas Filmmakers 'Production Fund. —  GreenCine Daily
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  1. Latin viā, ablative of via, road; see wegh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin via (later Italian Spanish Portuguese via), a way, road, passage, channel, also a journey, voyage, in rustic speech vea, properly orig. *veha = Sanskrit vaha = Gothic (Moesogothic) wigs = Anglo-Saxon weg = English way: see way. From Latin via are also ult. English viaticum, voyage, convey, convoy, envoy, invoice, devious, deviate, pervious, impervious, obvious, previous, obviate, bivious, trivial, trivium, quadrivium, the first element in viaduct, etc.
  2. Italian via, come, come on, away, enough, etc., an exclamation of encouragement, impatience, etc., an elliptical use of via, way: seevia.
 

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