apella

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See also: apel·la and apel·là

Translingual

Etymology

Possibly from Swedish apa (“primate, ape, monkey”) +‎ Latin -ella (diminutive suffix).

Noun

apella

  1. used as a specific epithet

Derived terms

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀπέλλα (apélla), which originally meant fold, fence for animals.

  • Hesychius of Alexandria: apellai (ἀπέλλαι), sekoi (σηκοί: folds), ecclesiai (εκκλησίαι: popular assemblies): Nilsson, Vol I, p. 556

Noun

apella (plural apellai)

  1. (Ancient Greece, politics) The popular deliberative assembly in the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta, corresponding to the ecclesia in most other Greek states.

Translations

Further reading

Anagrams

Aragonese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈpeʎa/
  • Rhymes: -eʎa
  • Syllabification: a‧pe‧lla

Noun

apella f (plural apellas) (central Aragonese)

  1. Alternative form of abella (“bee”)

References

  • Ralph Penny (2000) Variation and Change in Spanish, Cambridge University Press, page 25

Finnish

Noun

apella

  1. adessive singular of appi

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

A misinterpretation of the proper name Apella as used in Horace, given a folk etymology as a- + pellis (“skin”).

Pronunciation

Noun

apella m (genitive apellae); first declension

  1. one that is circumcised; a Jew
    Synonym: verpus
    • 1609, Adam(us) Proserchomus, Ad Sixtum Palmam :[1]
      David Apellarum rex
      David, king of the Jews

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative apella apellae
genitive apellae apellārum
dative apellae apellīs
accusative apellam apellās
ablative apellā apellīs
vocative apella apellae

References

  1. ^ Miloslav Okál, Michiel Verweij (1994) “Les pensées politiques, religieuses et culturelles d'Adam Proserchomus, poète slovaque de la Réforme. Avec une édition du Threnus astraeae (1611)”, in Humanistica Lovaniensia, number 43, page 404
  • Encyclopædia Britannica, 3rd edition, volume 2, 1797, page 111
  • Francis Holyoke (1612) Riders Dictionarie corrected, and with the addition of above five hundred Words enriched. Hereunto is annexed a Dictionarie Etymologicall ‎, 3rd edition, Oxford
    • Apella,ę,com.gen ex a,i.sine & pellis, Hor. One that is circumcised.
      Apella, genitive Apellae, of common gender, from a (“without”), that is without, & pellis (“skin”), Hor. One that is circumcised.
  • Christopher Wase (1675) Dictionarium Minus: A Compendious Dictionary, English-Latin & Latin-English. ‎, 2nd edition
    Apella, æ, A Jew, one of the Concision.
  • Thomas Elyot (1490?-1546) The dictionary of syr Thomas Eliot knyght‎. Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership, 2011, accessed 26 January 2023.
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