capela

Meaning

  1. (feminine) chapel (small Christian place of worship)
  2. (feminine) fleece of a sheep
  3. (feminine) layer
  4. (feminine) eyelid
  5. (feminine) cap which covers the tip of a traditional palleiro ("haystack")
  6. (feminine) hood

Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
ca‧pe‧la
Gender
♀️ Feminine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kaˈpɛla/
Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese capela, from Medieval Latin, Late Latin cappella (“little cloak; chapel”), diminutive of cappa (“cloak, cape”). Cognate with Portuguese capela, Spanish capilla, Catalan capella, Occitan capèla, French chapelle, Italian cappella and Romanian capelă.

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