cappella
Italian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Medieval Latin or Late Latin cappella, from the diminutive of cappa.
Noun[edit]
cappella f (plural cappelle)
- (Christianity) chapel
- (music) choir and accompanying musicians assigned to a church
- (vulgar) glans of the penis
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
From cappello (“hat”).
Noun[edit]
cappella f (plural cappelle)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- cappella1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- cappella2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From cappa (“cape; coat”) + -ella (diminutive suffix), literally “little cloak”. First attested circa 660 CE.[1]
Noun[edit]
cappella f (genitive cappellae); first declension (Early Medieval Latin)
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cappella | cappellae |
| Genitive | cappellae | cappellārum |
| Dative | cappellae | cappellīs |
| Accusative | cappellam | cappellās |
| Ablative | cappellā | cappellīs |
| Vocative | cappella | cappellae |
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
References[edit]
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “cappella”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 287
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Italian cappella (“chapel”), from Medieval Latin or Late Latin cappella (“chapel”), from cappa (“cape”), from either capitulāre (“head tax”), from caput (“head, top”), from Proto-Italic *kaput (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *káput- (“head”), from *kap- (“to seize”), or perhaps of substrate origin or from Ancient Greek [Term?] + and from -ellus (“diminutive suffix”), alternative form of -ulus (forms diminutive), from Proto-Italic *-olos, from earlier *-elos, from Proto-Indo-European *-e-lós, from Proto-Indo-European *-lós (“forms agent nouns”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
cappella
- Only used in a cappella (“a cappella”)
- Italian 3-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛlla
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛlla/3 syllables
- Italian terms derived from Medieval Latin
- Italian terms inherited from Late Latin
- Italian terms derived from Late Latin
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- it:Christianity
- it:Music
- Italian vulgarities
- it:Mushrooms
- Italian colloquialisms
- it:Places of worship
- it:Religion
- Latin terms suffixed with -ellus
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin first declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the first declension
- Latin feminine nouns
- Medieval Latin
- Early Medieval Latin
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kap-
- Norwegian Bokmål terms borrowed from Italian
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Italian
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Medieval Latin
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Late Latin
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from substrate languages
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Norwegian Bokmål terms with IPA pronunciation
- Norwegian Bokmål terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Norwegian Bokmål/elːa
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål adverbs
- Norwegian Bokmål terms spelled with C