The corpus record — Latin

Abella

Abella · f

a town in Campania, near Nolu, abounding in fruit-trees and nuts

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Where it lives

Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant — Lewis & Short

ăbella, ae, f.,

I a town in Campania, near Nolu, abounding in fruit-trees and nuts, now Avella, Sil. 8, 545: malifera, Verg. A. 7, 740. —Hence, Abellāna nux or Avellana, also Abellina, the filbert, Plin. 15, 22, 24, § 88; and Abellani, the inhabitants of Abella, Just. 20, 1.

In the wild

Abella Silius Italicus, Punica 8.543
Abellae Vergil, Aeneid 7.740

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. Abella (scan pp. 34-36; entry #0). Root candidates: *abiet-, *abi-, *h3olhreie-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. Abella (scan p. 27; entry #72).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Abella (scan p. 35; entry #63). Root candidates: *ablu-, *abalo-, *aból-.

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