procella

Italian

Etymology

From Latin procella (“storm, hurricane, tempest”).

Noun

procella f (plural procelle)

1. storm, tempest

Anagrams

• carpello, percallo, porcella

Latin

Etymology

From prōcellō (“I throw or cast down”), from prō- (“forward, down”) + *cellō ("I beat"). Confer percello (“I beat down”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /proˈkel.la/, [prɔˈkɛlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /proˈt͡ʃel.la/, [proˈt͡ʃɛlːä]

Noun

procella f (genitive procellae); first declension

1. storm, gale, gust, squall
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.84–86:

     Incubuēre marī tōtumque ā sēdibus īmīs
     ūna Eurusque Notusque ruunt crēberque procellīs
     Āfricus et vastōs volvunt ad lītora flūctūs.

     [The winds] fall upon the sea and they overturn everything from [its] bottom-most depths – together, both East Wind and South Wind and, frequent with gusts, the Southwest Wind – and they roll huge waves toward the shores.
     (The winds released by King Aeolus combine to cause a storm at sea; in particular, the hot “Africus” blew storms from the direction of Carthage. Notes: “incubuere” is a syncopated form of “incubuerunt”; the repetition of the conjunction “and” exemplifies asyndeton. See: Anemoi.)

2. tempest, hurricane

   Synonyms: turbō, tempestās

3. charge, onset

   Synonyms: incursio, impetus, invāsiō, impressiō, aggressiō, appetītus, occursio, oppugnātiō, incursus, petītiō, ictus, concursus, vīs, assultus

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	procella	procellae
genitive	procellae	procellārum
dative	procellae	procellīs
accusative	procellam	procellās
ablative	procellā	procellīs
vocative	procella	procellae

Descendants

• → English: procelle
• → Catalan: procella
• → French: procelle
• → Italian: procella
• → Portuguese: procela
• → Spanish: procela

References

• “procella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “procella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• procella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the storm drives some one on an unknown coast: procella (tempestas) aliquem ex alto ad ignotas terras (oras) defert