femella
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
From Latin fēmella (“girl, young woman”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
femella f (plural femelles)
Derived terms edit
- afemellat (“effeminate”)
- falguera femella (“lady fern”)
- femella d'orelles (“wingnut”)
- femella papallona (“butterfly nut”)
- femellenc (“feminine”)
- femeller (“womanizing”)
Further reading edit
- “femella” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “femella”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “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.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From fēmina (“woman”) + -la (feminine diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /feːˈmel.la/, [feːˈmɛlːʲä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /feˈmel.la/, [feˈmɛlːä]
Noun edit
fēmella f (genitive fēmellae); first declension (Diminutive of fēmina)
Declension edit
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 edit
- (young woman): puella
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Catalan: femella
- English: female
- Franco-Provençal: femella
- French: femelle
- Norman: feunmelle
- Piedmontese: fumela
- Romanian: femelă
References edit
- “femella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, 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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016