Where does “percapella” come from?
percapella (English) comes from English a cappella, from Italian a cappella, from Italian cappella, from Latin cappella, from Latin -ella, from Latin -ellus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
percapella (English): A vocal performance that only has percussive accompaniment
Definitions
- A vocal performance that only has percussive accompaniment
Ancestry of “percapella”, step by step
percapella traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English a cappella
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | a cappella | A vocal performance with no instrumental... |
| 2 | Italian | a cappella | a cappella |
| 3 | Italian | cappella | A chapel; A choir and accompanying musicians... |
| 4 | Latin | cappella | chapel; choir |
| 5 | Latin | -ella | inflection of -ellus: ## nominative/vocative... |
| 6 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 7 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via English percussive
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | percussive | Characterized by percussion; caused by or related... |
| 2 | English | percuss | to strike; to hit; to knock; to give a blow to;... |
| 3 | Latin | percussus | thrust through; pierced |
| 4 | Latin | percutiō | to strike, beat |
| 5 | Latin | per | through, by means of; throughout, during |
| 6 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 7 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 8 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 9 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |