a capela

• a capella
• a cappella

Borrowed from Italian a cappella (“in the manner of a chapel choir”, literally “from the chapel”).

• IPA^(key): /a kaˈpela/ [a kaˈpe.la]
• Syllabification: a ca‧pe‧la

a capela

1. a cappella

• “a capela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• Manuel Seco; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “a capela”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]
• “a capela”, in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas [Panhispanic Dictionary of Doubts] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Royal Spanish Academy; Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, 2023, →ISBN