apella

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.

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Aragonese

Noun

apella f

  1. (High Aragonese) Alternative form of abella (“bee”)[1]

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

Finnish

Noun

apella

  1. adessive singular of appi

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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.

Case 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, issue 43, page 404
  • Encyclopædia Britannica, volume 2, 3rd edition, 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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