capella

Borrowed from Medieval Latin cappella or inherited from Late Latin cappella, from cappa. Compare Occitan capèla.

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• IPA^(key): (Central) [kəˈpe.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) unknown
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaˈpe.ʎa]

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capella f (plural capelles)

1. chapel

• capellà

• “capella” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “capella” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

capella f (plural capelle)

1. Synonym of capretta

Diminutive of caper (“goat”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kaˈpel.la/, [käˈpɛlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈpel.la/, [käˈpɛlːä]

capella f (genitive capellae); first declension

1. A she-goat or kid, nanny-goat

First-declension noun.

• caper
• capra

• “capella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “capella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• capella 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)
• “capella”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• capella in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “capella”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

From Medieval Latin or Late Latin cappella, from cappa.

capella f (oblique plural capellas, nominative singular capella, nominative plural capellas)

1. (Christianity) chapel

• Occitan: capèla
  • → Basque: kapera

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “capella”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 285

capella f (plural capellas)

1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of capela.