Wiktionary

cappella

See also: Cappella

Italian

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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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
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Descendants
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  • → Friulian: capele (or directly from Latin)
  • → German: Kapelle (“band”)
  • → Luxembourgish: Kapell
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: cappella
  • → Romanian: capelă
  • → Russian: капе́лла (kapélla)

Etymology 2

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From cappello (“hat”).

Noun

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cappella f (plural cappelle)

  1. (mycology) cap
  2. (colloquial) (vulgar) head, glans (apex of the penis)
    Synonym: glande
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Further reading

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  • 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

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Etymology

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

Noun

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

  1. little coat
  2. (later) chapel

Declension

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative cappella cappellae
genitive cappellae cappellārum
dative cappellae cappellīs
accusative cappellam cappellās
ablative cappellā cappellīs
vocative cappella cappellae

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References

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

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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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

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

Adverb

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cappella

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