catella

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kaˈtel.la/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈtel.la/,

A feminisation of catellus (“a little dog”, “a puppy or whelp”) or an alteration of catula (“a female whelp”, “a young bitch”).

catella f (genitive catellae); first declension

1. a little bitch, bitch puppy, female whelp

First-declension noun.

From catēna +‎ -la (a contracted form of the diminutive suffix -ula).

• catēllus, catēnula

catēlla f (genitive catēllae); first declension

1. a light or ornamental chain

First-declension noun.

• “catella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “catella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• catella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “catella”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “catella”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin