Wiktionary

cappella

See also: Cappella

Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /kapˈpɛl.la/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlla
  • Hyphenation: cap‧pèl‧la

Etymology 1 edit

From Medieval Latin or Late Latin cappella, from the diminutive of cappa.

Noun edit

cappella f (plural cappelle)

  1. (Christianity) chapel
  2. (music) choir and accompanying musicians assigned to a church
  3. (vulgar) glans of the penis
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
  • → Friulian: capele (or directly from Latin)
  • → German: Kapelle (“band”)
  • → Luxembourgish: Kapell
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: cappella
  • → Romanian: capelă
  • → Russian: капе́лла (kapélla)

Etymology 2 edit

From cappello (“hat”).

Noun edit

cappella f (plural cappelle)

  1. (mycology) cap
  2. (colloquial) (vulgar) head, glans (apex of the penis)
    Synonym: glande
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit

Further reading edit

  • cappella1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • cappella2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From cappa (“cape; coat”) +‎ -ella (diminutive suffix), literally “little cloak”. First attested circa 660 CE.[1]

Noun edit

cappella f (genitive cappellae); first declension (Early Medieval Latin)

  1. little coat
  2. (later) chapel

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cappella cappellae
Genitive cappellae cappellārum
Dative cappellae cappellīs
Accusative cappellam cappellās
Ablative cappellā cappellīs
Vocative cappella cappellae

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

Descendants edit

References edit

  1. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “cappella”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 287

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Etymology edit

From Italian cappella (“chapel”), from Medieval Latin or Late Latin cappella (“chapel”), from cappa (“cape”), from either capitulāre (“head tax”), from caput (“head, top”), from Proto-Italic *kaput (“head”), from Proto-Indo-European *káput- (“head”), from *kap- (“to seize”), or perhaps of substrate origin or from Ancient Greek [Term?] + and from -ellus (“diminutive suffix”), alternative form of -ulus (forms diminutive), from Proto-Italic *-olos, from earlier *-elos, from Proto-Indo-European *-e-lós, from Proto-Indo-European *-lós (“forms agent nouns”).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /kaˈpɛlːa/
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  • Rhymes: -elːa
  • Hyphenation: cap‧pel‧la

Adverb edit

cappella

  1. Only used in a cappella (“a cappella”)
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