cappella

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

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

cappella f (plural cappelle)

1. (Christianity) chapel
2. (music) choir and accompanying musicians assigned to a church
3. (vulgar) glans of the penis

• a cappella
• cappellania
• cappellano

From cappello (“hat”).

cappella f (plural cappelle)

1. (mycology) cap
2. (colloquial) (vulgar) head, glans (apex of the penis)

   Synonym: glande

• fare una cappella
• scappellare

• → Albanian: kapelë
• → Aromanian: capelã
• → Romanian: capelă
• →? Romansch: capiala

• cappella¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• cappella² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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

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

1. little coat
2. (later) chapel

First-declension noun.

• cappellānus

• cappellus

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 + 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”).

• IPA^(key): /kaˈpɛlːa/

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• Rhymes: -elːa
• Hyphenation: cap‧pel‧la

cappella

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