cepulla

Latin

Alternative forms

caepulla

Etymology

From less common cēpula +‎ -la or syncopated -ula, cēpula itself being cēpa (“onion”) +‎ -ula, that makes cēpa +‎ -ula +‎ -la or cēpa +‎ -ula +‎ -ula.

Noun

cēpulla f (genitive cēpullae); first declension

onion-bed, onion-field
small onion

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cēpulla	cēpullae
genitive	cēpullae	cēpullārum
dative	cēpullae	cēpullīs
accusative	cēpullam	cēpullās
ablative	cēpullā	cēpullīs
vocative	cēpulla	cēpullae

Descendants

Dalmatian:
- capula, capul, capuola, capaula
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: cipolla
  - → Slavomolisano: čipula
- Neapolitan: cepolla, cepodda
- Sicilian: cipudda
  Calabrese: cipuja, cipura
North Italian:
- Emilian: zivålla, sigula, sigòla, sivòla, scigula, sgula, svòla
- Friulian: civole, cevole
- Ligurian: çiòula, çevolla, çèula, çeolla, çiòla
- Lombard: sigola, scigola, higola, sìgola
- Piedmontese: siola, sciola, sigola, sivola
- Romagnol: sòla, suòla
- Romansch: tschagula, tschaguola, tschavola, tschiguolla
- Venetan: séoła, ségoła, séola, zéoła, ziola, zhéoła, zivola — Fiumano
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: cevôla (“scallion”), ceôla (“onion”)
  Valdôtain: çòula, çaule
- Old Northern French: chibole
  - → Middle English: chibolle, chebolle, chiboll, chibol, chesbolle
    - English: cibol, chibol
    - Scots: sybol
Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: cibolla (“onionweed”) (Balearic)
- ⇒ Catalan: ceboller (“mole cricket”)
- Old Occitan: cebola, cibola
  - → French: ciboule
  - Occitan: cebola (“scallion”)
    Auvergnat: cebola (“onion”)
Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: cebolla
- Old Galician-Portuguese: cebola, çebola, cebolla
  - Fala: cebola
  - Galician: cebola
  - Portuguese: cebola (see there for further descendants)
- Old Spanish: cebolla
  - Ladino: sevoya
  - Spanish: cebolla (see there for further descendants)
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: chibudda
→ Basque: tipula
→ Belarusian: цыбу́ля (cybúlja)
→ Czech: cibule
→ Proto-West Germanic: *cibollā (see there for further descendants)
→ Serbo-Croatian: ка̀пула/kàpula
→ Slovak: cibuľa
→ Slovene: čebula

References

“cepulla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
cepulla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Niedermann, Max (1950) “Der Suffixtypus -ullus, -a, -um lateinischer Appellativa”, in Museum Helveticum‎^[1], page 152