cepulla

Latin

Alternative forms

• caepulla

Etymology

From less common cēpula +‎ -la or syncopated -ula, cēpula itself being cēpa (“onion”) +‎ -ula, that makes cēpa +‎ -ula +‎ -la or cēpa +‎ -ula +‎ -ula.

Noun

cēpulla f (genitive cēpullae); first declension

1. onion-bed, onion-field
2. small onion

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cēpulla	cēpullae
genitive	cēpullae	cēpullārum
dative	cēpullae	cēpullīs
accusative	cēpullam	cēpullās
ablative	cēpullā	cēpullīs
vocative	cēpulla	cēpullae

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Dalmatian: capula, capul, capuola, capaula
  • Italian: cipolla
    • → Slavomolisano: čipula
  • Neapolitan: cepolla, cepodda
  • Sicilian: cipudda

    Calabrese: cipuja, cipura

• North Italian:
  • Emilian: zivålla, sigula, sigòla, sivòla, scigula, sgula, svòla
  • Friulian: civole, cevole
  • Ligurian: çiòula, çevolla, çèula, çeolla, çiòla
  • Lombard: sigola, scigola, higola, sìgola
  • Piedmontese: siola, sciola, sigola, sivola
  • Romagnol: sòla, suòla
  • Romansch: tschagula, tschaguola, tschavola, tschiguolla
  • Venetan: séoła, ségoła, séola, zéoła, ziola, zhéoła, zivola — Fiumano
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: cevôla (“scallion”), ceôla (“onion”)

    Valdôtain: çòula, çaule

  • Old Northern French: chibole
    • → Middle English: chibolle, chebolle, chiboll, chibol, chesbolle
      • English: cibol, chibol
        • → Welsh: sibol, sibwl, shibwns
      • Scots: sybol
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: cibolla (“onionweed”) (Balearic)
  • ⇒ Catalan: ceboller (“mole cricket”)
  • Old Occitan: cebola, cibola
    • → French: ciboule
    • Occitan: cebola (“scallion”)

      Auvergnat: cebola (“onion”)

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: cebolla
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: cebola, çebola, cebolla
    • Fala: cebola
    • Galician: cebola
    • Portuguese: cebola (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish: cebolla
    • Ladino: sevoya
    • Spanish: cebolla (see there for further descendants)
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: chibudda
• → Basque: tipula
• → Belarusian: цыбу́ля (cybúlja)
• → Czech: cibule
• → Proto-West Germanic: *cibollā (see there for further descendants)
• → Serbo-Croatian: ка̀пула/kàpula
• → Slovak: cibuľa
• → Slovene: čebula

References

• “cepulla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cepulla”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Niedermann, Max (1950), “Der Suffixtypus -ullus, -a, -um lateinischer Appellativa”, in Museum Helveticum‎, page 152