cepulla

Latin

Alternative forms

• caepulla

Etymology

From less common cēpula +‎ -la or syncopated -ula, cēpula itself being cēpa (“onion”) +‎ -ula, that makes cēpa +‎ -ula +‎ -la or cēpa +‎ -ula +‎ -ula.

Noun

cēpulla f (genitive cēpullae); first declension

1. onion-bed, onion-field
2. small onion

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cēpulla	cēpullae
Genitive	cēpullae	cēpullārum
Dative	cēpullae	cēpullīs
Accusative	cēpullam	cēpullās
Ablative	cēpullā	cēpullīs
Vocative	cēpulla	cēpullae

Descendants

• → Basque: tipula
• → Belarusian: цыбу́ля (cybúlja)
• → Czech: cibule
• Dalmatian: capula
• → Estonian: sibul
• Friulian: civole, cevole
• → Middle Dutch: sipol
  • Dutch: siepel
  • → Latvian: sīpols
• Old Italian:
  • Italian: cipolla
    • → Slavomolisano: čipula
• → Old High German: zwibollo
  • German: Zwiebel
  • Hunsrik: Zwiwel
  • Luxembourgish: Zwiwwel
  • Vilamovian: cwypuł
  • Yiddish: ציבעלע (tsibele)
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: cebolla
• Old Occitan:
  • → French: ciboule
  • Occitan: cibola
• Old Galician-Portuguese: cebola
  • Galician: cebola
  • Portuguese: cebola
• Old Spanish: cebolla
  • Spanish: cebolla
    • → Bikol Central: sebolyas
    • → Brooke's Point Palawano: sibuyas
    • → Cebuano: sibuyas
    • → Central Sierra Miwok: siwo·ja-
    • → Chamicuro: sewoyo
    • → Kapampangan: sibuyas
    • → Quechua: siwulla
    • → Tagalog: sibuyas
• → Old Swedish: sipul
  • → Finnish: sipuli
  • → Votic: sipuli
• → Polish: cebula
  • → Ukrainian: цибу́ля (cybúlja)
• Romansch: tschagula, tschaguola, tschavola, tschiguolla
• Sardinian: chepudha, chibudha, chipudha, cibudha, ciudha, gibudha
• → Serbo-Croatian: ка̀пула/kàpula
• Sicilian: cipudda
• → Slovak: cibuľa
• → Slovene: čebula
• Venetian: zéoła, ziola, séoła
• → West Frisian: sipel

References

• “cepulla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cepulla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Niedermann, Max (1950) “Der Suffixtypus -ullus, -a, -um lateinischer Appellativa”, in Museum Helveticum‎^[1], page 152