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Pella

Pella proper noun: an ancient city, capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia.

pella: an ancient city, capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia
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Proper noun

Pella

  1. (historical) An ancient city, capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia.
  2. A regional unit of Greece in its periphery of Central Macedonia.
  3. A town of Greece in Central Macedonia.

Origin of Pella

From Latin Pella from Ancient Greek Πέλλα (Pélla), from Ancient Greek πέλλα (pélla) (presumably from an earlier *πέλσα) from Proto-Indo-European *pels- (“stone”). Cognates include Irish aill (“boulder, cliff”), Pashto پرښه (parša, “rock, rocky ledge”), Sanskrit पाषाण m (pāṣāṇa) / पाषी f (pāṣī, “stone”), Proto-Germanic *falisaz, English fell (“rocky ridge”), Old Norse fell / fjall (“mountain”), German Fels (“rock, cliff”)

Questions about Pella

What does Pella mean?
Pella means an ancient city, capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia.
What part of speech is Pella?
Pella is a proper noun.

Words near Pella in the dictionary

  1. Pell's equation
  2. Pell's equations
  3. Pell-Fermat equation
  4. Pell-Fermat equations
  5. pell-mell
  6. Pella
  7. pellack
  8. pellacks
  9. pellage
  10. pellagra
  11. pellagragenic

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