capella

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin cappella or inherited from Late Latin cappella, from cappa. Compare Occitan capèla.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [kəˈpe.ʎə]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) unknown
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [kaˈpe.ʎa]
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Noun

capella f (plural capelles)

  1. chapel

References

Italian

Noun

capella f (plural capelle)

  1. synonym of capretta

Latin

Etymology

From capra (she-goat) +‎ -la (diminutive-forming suffix). Equivalently, the feminine version of capellus, the diminutive of caper (goat).

Pronunciation

Noun

capella f (genitive capellae); first declension

  1. A she-goat or kid, nanny-goat

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative capella capellae
genitive capellae capellārum
dative capellae capellīs
accusative capellam capellās
ablative capellā capellīs
vocative capella capellae

References

  • capella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • capella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "capella", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • capella”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • capella in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  • capella”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Medieval Latin or Late Latin cappella, from cappa.

Noun

capella f (oblique plural capellas, nominative singular capella, nominative plural capellas)

  1. (Christianity) chapel

Descendants

  • Occitan: capèla

References

Portuguese

Noun

capella f (plural capellas)

  1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of capela.