apella

See also: apel·la and apel·là

Translingual

Etymology

Possibly from Swedish apa (“primate, ape, monkey”) +‎ Latin -ella (diminutive suffix).

Noun

apella

1. used as a specific epithet

Derived terms

• Sapajus apella (“tufted capuchin”)
• Simia apella
• Cebus apella
• Nilasera apella
• Racta apella
• Rifargia apella

English

Etymology

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

apella (plural apellai)

1. (Ancient Greece, politics) The popular deliberative assembly in the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta, corresponding to the ecclesia in most other Greek states.

Translations

a Spartan assembly

• Greek: απέλλα (el) f (apélla)

Further reading

• apella on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• paella, paleal, pallae

Aragonese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈpeʎa/
• Rhymes: -eʎa
• Syllabification: a‧pe‧lla

Noun

apella f (plural apellas) (High Aragonese)

1. Alternative form of abella (“bee”)

References

• Ralph Penny (2000) Variation and Change in Spanish, Cambridge University Press, page 25

Finnish

Noun

apella

1. adessive singular of appi

Anagrams

• paella, pallea

Latin

Alternative forms

• Apella

Etymology

A misinterpretation of the proper name Apella as used in Horace, given a folk etymology as a- + pellis (“skin”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈpel.la/, [äˈpɛlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈpel.la/, [äˈpɛlːä]

Noun

apella m (genitive apellae); first declension

1. one that is circumcised; a Jew

   Synonym: verpus

   • 1609, Adam(us) Proserchomus, Ad Sixtum Palmam :

     David Apellarum rex

     David, king of the Jews

Declension

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

• 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
  • Apella,ę,com.gen[.] ex a,i.sine & pellis, Hor. One that is circumcised.

    Apella, genitive Apellae, of common gender, from a (“without”), that is without, & pellis (“skin”), Hor. One that is circumcised.

• 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.