English

An archaeological site at Pella

Proper noun

Pella

1. (historical) An ancient city, capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia.
2. A prefecture of Greece in its periphery of Central Macedonia.
3. A town of Greece in Central Macedonia.

Anagrams

• lapel

References

1. ↑ http://dsalsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.1:1:4418.raverty
2. ↑ Monier Williams 1899:624
3. ↑ Pokorny 1959:807

French

Verb

pella

1. third-person singular past historic of peller

Italian

Contraction

pella

1. per la

Anagrams

• palle

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classicistic) IPA^(key): /ˈpel.la/

Noun

pella f ‎(genitive pellae); first declension

1. Alternative spelling of perula

Declension

First declension.

References

• PELLA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pella in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
• pella in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pella in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• pella in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
• Jan Frederik Niermeyer, Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus : Lexique Latin Médiéval–Français/Anglais : A Medieval Latin–French/English Dictionary, fascicle I (1976), page 783/1, “pella”

Portuguese

Contraction

pella

1. Obsolete spelling of pela

Spanish

Noun

pella f ‎(plural pellas)

1. lump, dollop, mass

Derived terms

• hacer pellas

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Noun

pella n (plural pella)

1. pearl