cabella

== Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Arabic قَبَالَة (qabāla, “bail, guaranty”). Related to Italian gabella, Middle French gabelle. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kaˈbɛl.la] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kaˈbɛl.la] === Noun === cabella f (genitive cabellae); first declension (Medieval Latin) a duty tax (on imported goods, particularly salt and wine) ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. === References === "cabella", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)