apella

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

1. • 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.

• paella, paleal, pallae

apella

1. Adessive singular form of appi.

• paella, pallea

Diminutive of apes (“bee”)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈpel.la/, [aˈpɛl.la]

apella f (genitive apellae); first declension

1. small bee

First declension.

• Cebus apella - the tufted capuchin
• Nilasera apella
• Racta apella
• Rifargia apella

• apella in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)