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

Derived terms

• a cappella
• cappellania
• cappellano

Descendants

• → German: Kapelle
• → Norwegian Bokmål: cappella

Etymology 2

From cappello (“hat”).

Noun

cappella f (plural cappelle)

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

   Synonym: glande

Related terms

• cappello

Derived terms

• fare una cappella
• scappellare

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

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Latin

Etymology

cappa (“cape; coat”) +‎ -ellus (diminutive suffix), literally “little cloak”. More at chapel.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kapˈpel.la/, [käpˈpɛlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kapˈpel.la/, [käpˈpɛlːä]

Noun

cappella f (genitive cappellae); first declension

1. (Late Latin, Vulgar Latin, Medieval Latin) chapel
2. (Late Latin, Vulgar Latin, Medieval Latin) choir

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

Descendants

• Asturian: capiella, capiya
• Friulian: capele
• German: Kapelle
• Irish: séipéal
• Italian: cappella
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: cappella
• → Old Czech: caplicě
  • → Polish: kaplica
• Old French: chapele
  • → English: chapel
  • French: chapelle
  • Norman: chapele
  • → Middle Irish: seipél
    • Irish: séipéal

• Old Galician-Portuguese: capela
  • Galician: capela
  • Portuguese: capela
• Old Occitan: capella
  • Catalan: capella
  • Occitan: capèla
• Romanian: capelă
• Sardinian: capèdha, capedda
• Spanish: capilla
• Venetian: capeła, capela
• Welsh: capel

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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”)