camella

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camella f (plural camelles)

1. camel (beast of burden)

• camedda

• IPA^(key): /kaˈmelːa/

camella (masculine camellu, plural camelle)

1. she-camel

• “camella, camedda” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Diminutive form of camera, i.e. camera +‎ -la with regular assimilation of r to l.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kaˈmel.la/, [käˈmɛlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈmel.la/, [käˈmɛlːä]

camella f (genitive camellae); first declension

1. a kind of drinking vessel: a wine-goblet, wine-cup, cup, or bowl

First-declension noun.

• → Ancient Greek: κάμηλα (kámēla)
• → Andalusian Arabic: غَمَالَّة (ḡamālla)
• Catalan: gamella
• Portuguese: gamela
• Spanish: gamella
  • → French: gamelle
    • → Italian: gamella

• Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “89”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎ (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001
• “cămella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “camella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cămella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 249/3.
• “camella” on page 262/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

• Syllabification: ca‧me‧lla

camella f (plural camellas)

1. female equivalent of camello