capela

See also: capelă, capelã, capeła, and capelă

Galician

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈpɛla/ [kɑˈpɛ.lɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɛla
• Hyphenation: ca‧pe‧la

Noun

capela f (plural capelas)

1. (religion) chapel (small Christian place of worship)
2. fleece of a sheep
3. layer
4. eyelid

   Synonym: pálpebra

5. cap which covers the tip of a traditional palleiro ("haystack")
6. hood

   Synonym: muradá

Derived terms

• A Capela
• capeleira
• capelexar

Related terms

• capa

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “capela”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “capela”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “capela”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “capela”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “capela”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

capela

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Alternative forms

• capella (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈpɛ.lɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈpɛ.lɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈpɛ.la/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈpɛ.lɐ/

• Hyphenation: ca‧pe‧la

Noun

capela f (plural capelas)

1. (religion) chapel (small Christian place of worship)

   Synonym: ermida

2. (chemistry) fume hood (a ventilated compartment in which chemical procedures may be undertaken)

Related terms

• capa
• capelão
• capelinha

Descendants

• → Konkani: कोपेल (kopel)
• → Malayalam: കപ്പേള (kappēḷa)

Further reading

• “capela”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “capela”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈpela/ [kaˈpe.la]
• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: ca‧pe‧la

Noun

capela

1. only used in a capela

Venetan

Alternative forms

• capeła

Etymology

See capeła. Compare Italian cappella

Noun

capela f (plural capele)

1. error, mistake
2. head (of a nail)
3. glans penis