femella

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /fəˈme.ʎə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /feˈme.ʎa/

Noun

femella f (plural femelles)

1. female

   Antonym: mascle

2. nut (type of fastener)

Derived terms

• falguera femella, (Valencia) falaguera femella
• femella d'orelles (“wingnut”)
• femella papallona (“butterfly nut”)

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, 2022
• “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.

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /feːˈmel.la/, [feːˈmɛlːʲä]
• (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
• French: femelle
• Norman: feunmelle
• Piedmontese: fumela
• Romanian: femelă

References

• “femella”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; 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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016