procella

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

procella f (plural procelle)

1. storm, tempest

• carpello, percallo, porcella

From procello (“to throw violently forward”), from pro- (“forward”) + cello (“to rise, to tower”). Cf. percello. Likely related to Ancient Greek κέλης (kélēs).

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

procella f (genitive procellae); first declension

1. storm, gale
2. tempest, hurricane

   Synonyms: turbō, tempestās

3. charge, onset

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

First-declension noun.

• celer
• celox

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

• “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the storm drives some one on an unknown coast: procella (tempestas) aliquem ex alto ad ignotas terras (oras) defert