capella

See also: Capella, capellà, cappella, and a capella

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin cappella or inherited from Late Latin cappella, from cappa. Compare Occitan capèla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [kəˈpe̞.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) unknown
• IPA^(key): (Central) [kəˈpe.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [kaˈpe.ʎa]

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Noun

capella f (plural capelles)

1. chapel

Related terms

• capellà

References

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “capella”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
• “capella” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Italian

Noun

capella f (plural capelle)

1. synonym of capretta

Latin

Etymology

From capra (“she-goat”) +‎ -la (diminutive-forming suffix). Equivalently, the feminine version of capellus, the diminutive of caper (“goat”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

capella f (genitive capellae); first declension

1. A she-goat or kid, nanny-goat

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	capella	capellae
genitive	capellae	capellārum
dative	capellae	capellīs
accusative	capellam	capellās
ablative	capellā	capellīs
vocative	capella	capellae

References

• “capella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “capella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "capella", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “capella”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• capella in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “capella”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Medieval Latin or Late Latin cappella, from cappa.

Noun

capella f (oblique plural capellas, nominative singular capella, nominative plural capellas)

1. (Christianity) chapel

Descendants

• Occitan: capèla
  • → Basque: kapera

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “capella”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 285

Portuguese

Noun

capella f (plural capellas)

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of capela