Where does “cabaletta” come from?
cabaletta (English) comes from Italian coboletta, from Italian cobola, from Old Occitan cobla, from Latin cōpula, from Latin coapula, from Latin apio, from Latin apium, from Latin Apis — the god Apis.
cabaletta (English): A short, rhythmically repetitive aria
Definitions
- A short, rhythmically repetitive aria
Ancestry of “cabaletta”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | coboletta | Short stanza; couplet |
| 2 | Italian | cobola | Alternative form of cobbola; stanza, couplet |
| 3 | Old Occitan | cobla | couplet |
| 4 | Latin | cōpula | a bond, tie, band or other connecting item |
| 5 | Latin | coapula | — |
| 6 | Latin | apio | dative singular of apium; ablative singular of... |
| 7 | Latin | apium | parsley; celery; genitive plural of apis |
| 8 | Latin | Apis | A seaport town of Egypt situated at the borders with Marmarica |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | Ἄπις | — |
| 10 | Coptic | ϩⲁⲡⲉ | the Apis bull, a bull worshipped as a herald of the gods (first Ptah, then Osiris, then Atum) |
| 11 | Egyptian | ḥp | the god Apis |