procella

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Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin procella (storm, hurricane, tempest).

Noun[edit]

procella f (plural procelle)

  1. storm, tempest

Anagrams[edit]

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From prōcellō (I throw or cast down), from prō- (forward, down) + *cellō ("I beat"). Confer percello (I beat down).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

procella f (genitive procellae); first declension

  1. storm, gale, gust, squall
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.84–86:
      Incubuēre marī tōtumque ā sēdibus īmīs
      ūna Eurusque Notusque ruunt crēberque procellīs
      Āfricus et vastōs volvunt ad lītora flūctūs.
      [The winds] fall upon the sea and they overturn everything from [its] bottom-most depths – together, both East Wind and South Wind and, frequent with gusts, the Southwest Wind – and they roll huge waves toward the shores.
      (The winds released by King Aeolus combine to cause a storm at sea; in particular, the hot “Africus” blew storms from the direction of Carthage. Notes: “incubuere” is a syncopated form of “incubuerunt”; the repetition of the conjunction “and” exemplifies asyndeton. See: Anemoi.)
  2. tempest, hurricane
    Synonyms: turbō, tempestās
  3. charge, onset
    Synonyms: incursio, impetus, invāsiō, impressiō, aggressiō, appetītus, occursio, oppugnātiō, incursus, petītiō, ictus, concursus, vīs, assultus

Declension[edit]

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative procella procellae
Genitive procellae procellārum
Dative procellae procellīs
Accusative procellam procellās
Ablative procellā procellīs
Vocative procella procellae

Descendants[edit]

  • English: procelle
  • Catalan: procella
  • French: procelle
  • Italian: procella
  • Portuguese: procela
  • Spanish: procela

References[edit]

  • procella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • procella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • procella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the storm drives some one on an unknown coast: procella (tempestas) aliquem ex alto ad ignotas terras (oras) defert