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Italian
Etymology
From Latin procella (“storm, hurricane, tempest”).
Noun
procella f (plural procelle)
- storm, tempest
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From prōcellō (“I throw or cast down”), from prō- (“forward, down”) + *cellō ("I beat"). Confer percello (“I beat down”).
Pronunciation
Noun
procella f (genitive procellae); first declension
- storm, gale, gust, squall
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.84–86:
- Incubuēre marī tōtumque ā sēdibus īmīs
ūna Eurusque Notusque ruunt crēberque procellīs
Āfricus et vastōs volvunt ad lītora flūctūs.- fall upon the sea and they overturn everything from bottom-most depths – together, both East Wind and South Wind and, frequent with gusts, the Southwest Wind – and they roll huge waves toward the shores.
(The winds released by King Aeolus combine to cause a storm at sea; in particular, the hot “Africus” blew storms from the direction of Carthage. Notes: “incubuere” is a syncopated form of “incubuerunt”; the repetition of the conjunction “and” exemplifies asyndeton. See: Anemoi.)
- tempest, hurricane
- Synonyms: turbō, tempestās
- charge, onset
- Synonyms: incursio, impetus, invāsiō, impressiō, aggressiō, appetītus, occursio, oppugnātiō, incursus, petītiō, ictus, concursus, vīs, assultus
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “procella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “procella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- procella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the storm drives some one on an unknown coast: procella (tempestas) aliquem ex alto ad ignotas terras (oras) defert