popular, the horizontal line eventually changed into the Greek letter gamma (, ) and later into litterae notabiliores, which were enlarged letters at the beginning of a paragraph.

Use in Latin

The above notation soon changed to the letter , an abbreviation for the Latin word caput, which translates as "head", i.e. it marks the head of a new thesis. Eventually, to mark a new section, the Latin word capitulum, which translates as "little head", was used, and the letter came

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