cappella

See also: Cappella

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

cappella f (plural cappelle)

1. (Christianity) chapel
2. (music) choir and accompanying musicians assigned to a church

Derived terms

• a cappella
• cappellania
• cappellano

Descendants

• → German: Kapelle
• → Norwegian Bokmål: cappella

Etymology 2

From cappello (“hat”).

Noun

cappella f (plural cappelle)

1. (mycology) cap
2. (colloquial) (vulgar) head, glans (apex of the penis)

   Synonym: glande

Derived terms

• fare una cappella
• scappellare

Descendants

• → Albanian: kapelë
• → Aromanian: capelã
• → Romanian: capelă
• →? Romansch: capiala

Further reading

• 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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance) IPA^(key): /kapˈpɛlla/
• (Proto-Western-Romance) IPA^(key): /kaˈpɛlla/

Noun

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

1. little coat
2. (later) chapel

Declension

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

• cappellānus

Related terms

• cappellus

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: cappella
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: cappella
    • → Romanian: capelă
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: capele
  • Venetian: capeła, capela
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: capella
  • Occitan: capèla
  • Old French: chapele (see there for further descendants)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: capiella, capiya
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: capela
    • Galician: capela
    • Portuguese: capela
  • Old Spanish: capiella
    • Spanish: capilla
• Borrowings:
  • → Middle Welsh: capel
    • Welsh: capel
  • → Old Czech: caplicě
    • → Polish: kaplica
  • → Old High German: kappella, kapella
    • Middle High German: kappelle, kapelle
      • German: Kapelle

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /kaˈpɛlːa/

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• Rhymes: -elːa
• Hyphenation: cap‧pel‧la

Adverb

cappella

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