Noun: caravella
Gender: f
Hyphenation: ca‧ra‧vèl‧la
| Singular f | caravella |
| Plural f | caravelle |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like caravella
monferrina,
ossichinolina,
palestra,
nipoteria,
gualdrappa,
bacinella,
minicassetta,
bestemmia,
geostoria,
sferra,
sferza,
sfilza,
triplofonia,
fiduciaria,
meteoroscopia,
ipersonnia,
sovrabbondanza,
corbezzola,
pseudoestesia,
viminata, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese caravela, from Old Galician-Portuguese caravela (“caravel”), a diminutive of caravo, carabo (“type of small vessel”), from Late Latin carabus (“small wicker boat decked with hide”), borrowed from Ancient Greek κᾱ́ρᾰβος (kā́răbos, “type of light ship; kind of beetle, probably a longhorn beetle; kind of crustacean, probably a crayfish”). See: Portuguese Nouns '
caravela'.
Verbs referencing "caravella"
Romanian Nouns
caravelă, Polish Nouns
karawela.
Translations