femella

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin fēmella (“girl, young woman”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [fəˈme.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [feˈme.ʎa]

Noun

femella f (plural femelles)

1. female

   Antonym: mascle

2. nut (type of fastener)

Derived terms

• afemellat (“effeminate”)
• falguera femella (“lady fern”)
• femella d'orelles (“wingnut”)
• femella papallona (“butterfly nut”)
• femellenc (“feminine”)
• femeller (“womanizing”)

 

Further reading

• “femella” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “femella”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “femella” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “femella” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Etymology

From fēmina (“woman”) +‎ -la (feminine diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /feːˈmel.la/, [feːˈmɛlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /feˈmel.la/, [feˈmɛlːä]

Noun

fēmella f (genitive fēmellae); first declension (diminutive of fēmina)

1. girl, young woman

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fēmella	fēmellae
Genitive	fēmellae	fēmellārum
Dative	fēmellae	fēmellīs
Accusative	fēmellam	fēmellās
Ablative	fēmellā	fēmellīs
Vocative	fēmella	fēmellae

Synonyms

• (young woman): puella

Derived terms

• fēmellārius

Related terms

• fēmina
• fēminātus
• fēmineus
• fēminīnē
• fēminīnus
• fēminō

 

Descendants

• Catalan: femella
• English: female
• Franco-Provençal: femèla
• French: femelle
• Norman: feunmelle
• Piedmontese: fumela
• Romanian: femelă

References

• “femella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “femella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• femella in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• femella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• femella in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016