femella

From Latin fēmella (“girl, young woman”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [fəˈme.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [feˈme.ʎa]

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femella f (plural femelles)

1. female

   Antonym: mascle

2. nut (type of fastener)

• “femella”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “femella”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “femella” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “femella” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From fēmina f (“woman”) +‎ -la (feminine diminutive suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [feːˈmɛl.la]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [feˈmɛl.la]

fēmella f (genitive fēmellae); first declension (diminutive of fēmina)

1. girl, young woman

First-declension noun.

• puella f

• fēmellārius m

• Catalan: femella
• Franco-Provençal: femèla
• Old French: femele
  • Middle French: femelle
    • French: femelle
      • → Romanian: femelă f
  • → Middle English: femele, femaille, femal, female, femawle, femayll, femel, femelle, femmale, ffemale
    • English: female
    • Scots: female
• Norman: feunmelle
  • Occitan:

Languedocien: femèla

Limousin: femela

Gascon: hémia

• Piedmontese: fumela
• Romanian: femelă

• “femella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “femella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "femella", 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)
• femella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• femella in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016