cappella

See also: Cappella

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kapˈpɛl.la/
• Rhymes: -ɛlla
• Hyphenation: cap‧pèl‧la

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin or Late Latin cappella, from the diminutive of cappa.

Noun

cappella f (plural cappelle)

1. (Christianity) chapel
2. (music) choir and accompanying musicians assigned to a church
3. (vulgar) glans of the penis

Derived terms

• a cappella
• cappellania
• cappellano

Descendants

• → Friulian: capele (or directly from Latin)
• → German: Kapelle (“band”)
  • → English: capelle, kapelle
  • → Polish: kapela
• → Luxembourgish: Kapell
• → Norwegian Bokmål: cappella
• → Romanian: capelă
• → Russian: капе́лла (kapélla)
  • → Crimean Tatar: kapella

Etymology 2

From cappello (“hat”).

Noun

cappella f (plural cappelle)

1. (mycology) cap
2. (colloquial) (vulgar) head, glans (apex of the penis)

   Synonym: glande

Derived terms

• fare una cappella
• scappellare

Descendants

• → Albanian: kapelë
• → Aromanian: capelã
• → Romanian: capelă
• →? Romansch: capiala

Further reading

• 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

Etymology

From cappa (“cape; coat”) +‎ -ella (diminutive suffix), literally “little cloak”. First attested circa 660 CE.

Noun

cappella f (genitive cappellae); first declension (Early Medieval Latin)

1. little coat
2. (later) chapel

Declension

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

• cappellānus

Related terms

• cappellus

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: cappella
    • → Friulian: capele (or directly from Latin)
    • → German: Kapelle (“band”)
      • → English: capelle, kapelle
      • → Polish: kapela
    • → Luxembourgish: Kapell
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: cappella
    • → Romanian: capelă
    • → Russian: капе́лла (kapélla)
      • → Crimean Tatar: kapella
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: capele (probably a borrowing)
  • Venetian: capeła, capela
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: capella (inherited or borrowed)
  • Old French: chapele (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Occitan: capella
    • Occitan: capèla
      • → Basque: kapera
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: capiella, capiya
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: capela
    • Galician: capela
    • Portuguese: capela, capella
      • → Konkani: कोपेल (kopel)
      • → Malayalam: കപ്പേള (kappēḷa)
  • Old Spanish: capiella
    • Spanish: capilla
      • Chavacano: capilla
      • → Bikol Central: kapilya
      • → Cebuano: kapilya
      • → Ilocano: kapilia
      • → Hiligaynon: kapilya
      • → Tagalog: kapilya
• → Indonesian: kapela
• → Middle Welsh: capel
  • Welsh: capel
• → Old Czech: caplicě
  • → Polish: kaplica
    • → Belarusian: каплі́ца (kaplíca)
    • → Ukrainian: капли́ця (kaplýcja)
• → Proto-West Germanic: *kappellā (see there for further descendants)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /kaˈpɛlːa/

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• Rhymes: -elːa
• Hyphenation: cap‧pel‧la

Adverb

cappella

1. Only used in a cappella (“a cappella”)