cabella

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَبَالَة (qabāla, “bail, guaranty”). Related to Italian gabella, Middle French gabelle.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kaˈbel.la/, [käˈbɛlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈbel.la/, [käˈbɛlːä]

Noun

cabella f (genitive cabellae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) a duty tax (on imported goods, particularly salt and wine)
   • 13th century AD, Delfino del Bosco (mediator, possible writer of the deed), Mediating deed between the Pevere family and Malocello over one fourth of the town of Varazze , (taken from R. Deputazione subalpina di storia patria, 1909, pub. by The University of California, page 190):

     et de cabella salis nichil dicam

     And I shall say nothing about the tax on salt

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cabella	cabellae
genitive	cabellae	cabellārum
dative	cabellae	cabellīs
accusative	cabellam	cabellās
ablative	cabellā	cabellīs
vocative	cabella	cabellae

References

• cabella in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)