Word Origin Summary

-ella is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• Lycopodiella

  Translingual · derived from

• -ea

  Romanian · inherited from

• -ella

  Translingual · derived from

• -ela

  Galician · inherited from

• Goebeliella

  Translingual · derived from

• -ella

  Catalan · inherited from

• -eauã

  Aromanian · inherited from

• -illa

  Spanish · inherited from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root