# cappella
## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kapˈpɛl.la/
* Rhymes: -ɛlla
* Hyphenation: cap‧pèl‧la

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

cappella f (plural cappelle)
* (Christianity) chapel
* (music) choir and accompanying musicians assigned to a church
* (vulgar) glans of the penis

##### Derived terms

* a cappella
* cappellania
* cappellano

##### Descendants

* → Friulian: capele
* → German: Kapelle (“band”)
** → English: capelle, kapelle
** → Polish: kapela
* → Luxembourgish: Kapell
* → Norwegian Bokmål: cappella
* → Romanian: capelă
* → Russian: капе́лла (kapélla)
** → Crimean Tatar: kapella

### Etymology 2

From cappello (“hat”).

#### Noun

cappella f (plural cappelle)
* (mycology) cap
* (colloquial) (vulgar) head, glans (apex of the penis)
    Synonym: glande

##### Derived terms

* fare una cappella
* scappellare

##### Descendants

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

### Further reading

* cappella$^1$ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
* cappella$^2$ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Noun

cappella f (genitive cappellae); first declension (Early Medieval Latin)
* little coat
* (later) chapel

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* cappellānus

#### Related terms

* cappellus

#### Descendants

* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: cappella (see there for further descendants)
** Venetan: capeła, capela
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: capella (possibly borrowed)
** Old French: chapele (see there for further descendants)
** Old Occitan: capella
*** Occitan: capèla
**** → Basque: kapera
* Ibero-Romance:
** Asturian: capiella, capiya
** Mirandese: capielha
** Old Galician-Portuguese: capela
*** Galician: capela
*** Portuguese: capela, capella (obsolete)
**** → Konkani: कोपेल (kopel)
**** → Malayalam: കപ്പേള (kappēḷa)
** Old Spanish: capiella
*** Spanish: capilla (see there for further descendants)
* Borrowings:
** → Indonesian: kapela
** → Middle Welsh: capel
*** Welsh: capel
** → Old Czech: caplicě
*** → Polish: kaplica
**** → Belarusian: каплі́ца (kaplíca)
**** → Ukrainian: капли́ця (kaplýcja)
** → Proto-West Germanic: *kappellā (see there for further descendants)

### References

* ↑ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “cappella”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 287

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

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 [Term?] + 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”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈpɛlːa/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -elːa
* Hyphenation: cap‧pel‧la

### Adverb

cappella
* Only used in a cappella (“a cappella”)