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capella.

chapel; choir; [a capella => unaccompanied (song); ~ magister => choirmaster]; she-goat; meteor type; star in constellation Auriga (rising in rainy season); dirty fellow, old goat; man with a goat-like beard; body odor;

7 characters3 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun[kaˈpɛl.la]Classical-Latin[kaˈpɛl.la]
  1. A she-goat or kid, nanny-goat

    declension-1 · feminine
Where this word comes from

From capra (“she-goat”) + -la (diminutive-forming suffix). Equivalently, the feminine version of capellus, the diminutive of caper (“goat”).

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