apella

Possibly from Swedish apa (“primate, ape, monkey”) +‎ Latin -ella (diminutive suffix).

apella

1. used as a specific epithet

• Sapajus apella (“tufted capuchin”)
• Simia apella
• Cebus apella
• Nilasera apella
• Racta apella
• Rifargia apella

From Ancient Greek ἀπέλλα (apélla), which originally meant fold, fence for animals.

• Hesychius of Alexandria: apellai (ἀπέλλαι), sekoi (σηκοί: folds), ecclesiai (εκκλησίαι: popular assemblies): Nilsson, Vol I, p. 556

apella (plural apellai)

1. (Ancient Greece, politics) The popular deliberative assembly in the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta, corresponding to the ecclesia in most other Greek states.

• apella on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• paella, paleal, pallae

• IPA^(key): /aˈpeʎa/
• Rhymes: -eʎa
• Syllabification: a‧pe‧lla

apella f (plural apellas) (High Aragonese)

1. Alternative form of abella (“bee”)

• Ralph Penny (2000) Variation and Change in Spanish, Cambridge University Press, page 25

apella

1. adessive singular of appi

• paella, pallea

• Apella

A misinterpretation of the proper name Apella as used in Horace, given a folk etymology as a- + pellis (“skin”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈpel.la/, [äˈpɛlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈpel.la/, [äˈpɛlːä]

apella m (genitive apellae); first declension

1. one that is circumcised; a Jew

   Synonym: verpus

   • 1609, Adam(us) Proserchomus, Ad Sixtum Palmam :[1]

     David Apellarum rex

     David, king of the Jews

First-declension noun.

• Encyclopædia Britannica, 3rd edition, volume 2, 1797, page 111
• Francis Holyoke (1612) Riders Dictionarie corrected, and with the addition of above five hundred Words enriched. Hereunto is annexed a Dictionarie Etymologicall [...]‎, 3rd edition, Oxford
  • Apella,ę,com.gen[.] ex a,i.sine & pellis, Hor. One that is circumcised.

    Apella, genitive Apellae, of common gender, from a (“without”), that is without, & pellis (“skin”), Hor. One that is circumcised.

• Christopher Wase (1675) Dictionarium Minus: A Compendious Dictionary, English-Latin & Latin-English. [...]‎, 2nd edition

  Apella, æ, A Jew, one of the Concision.

• Thomas Elyot (1490?-1546) The dictionary of syr Thomas Eliot knyght‎. Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership, 2011, accessed 26 January 2023.