apella
Translingual edit
Etymology edit
Possibly from Swedish apa (“primate, ape, monkey”) + Latin -ella (diminutive suffix).
Noun edit
apella
- used as a specific epithet
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English edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek ἀπέλλα (apélla), which originally meant fold, fence for animals.
- Hesychius of Alexandria: apellai (ἀπέλλαι), sekoi (σηκοί: folds), ecclesiai (εκκλησίαι: popular assemblies): Nilsson, Vol I, p. 556
Noun edit
apella (plural apellai)
- (Ancient Greece, politics) The popular deliberative assembly in the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta, corresponding to the ecclesia in most other Greek states.
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Aragonese edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
apella f (plural apellas) (High Aragonese)
- Alternative form of abella (“bee”)
References edit
- Ralph Penny (2000) Variation and Change in Spanish, Cambridge University Press, page 25
Finnish edit
Noun edit
apella
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Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
A misinterpretation of the proper name Apella as used in Horace, given a folk etymology as a- + pellis (“skin”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈpel.la/, [äˈpɛlːʲä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈpel.la/, [äˈpɛlːä]
Noun edit
apella m (genitive apellae); first declension
- one that is circumcised; a Jew
- Synonym: verpus
- 1609, Adam(us) Proserchomus, Ad Sixtum Palmam :[1]
- David Apellarum rex
- David, king of the Jews
- David Apellarum rex
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | apella | apellae |
Genitive | apellae | apellārum |
Dative | apellae | apellīs |
Accusative | apellam | apellās |
Ablative | apellā | apellīs |
Vocative | apella | apellae |
References edit
- ^ Miloslav Okál, Michiel Verweij (1994) “Les pensées politiques, religieuses et culturelles d'Adam Proserchomus, poète slovaque de la Réforme. Avec une édition du Threnus astraeae (1611)”, in Humanistica Lovaniensia, number 43, page 404
- Encyclopædia Britannica, 3rd edition, volume 2, 1797, page 111
- Francis Holyoke (1612) Riders Dictionarie corrected, and with the addition of above five hundred Words enriched. Hereunto is annexed a Dictionarie Etymologicall [...][1], 3rd edition, Oxford
- Christopher Wase (1675) Dictionarium Minus: A Compendious Dictionary, English-Latin & Latin-English. [...][2], 2nd edition
- Apella, æ, A Jew, one of the Concision.
- Thomas Elyot (1490?-1546) The dictionary of syr Thomas Eliot knyght[3]. Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership, 2011, accessed 26 January 2023.