porcella

From Late Latin porcella, from porcellus, from Latin porcus.

• IPA^(key): /porˈt͡ʃɛl.la/
• Rhymes: -ɛlla
• Hyphenation: por‧cèl‧la

porcella f (plural porcelle)

1. female equivalent of porcello (“piglet”)
2. slut, bitch, goer

• porca

• carpello, percallo, procella

Feminine of porcellus.

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

porcella f (genitive porcellae); first declension

1. (pre-Classical, Late Latin) female piglet
2. (vulgar) a woman's vulva, pussy

First-declension noun.

• “porcella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• porcella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.