campana

Meaning

Noun

• A church bell, particularly a large bell used in medieval church steeples or towers.
• A bell-shaped vase.
• A bell-shaped flower, particularly the pasque flower.
• The body of a capital of the Corinthian order.
• A drop of a Doric architrave.

Origin

• Borrowed from Late Latin campana, traditionally taken from Campana, from its diocese Nola's having been the supposed location of St Paulinus's introduction of bells to Christian ceremony, but sometimes derived from Ancient Greek καπάνη ("felt helmet") owing to a supposed resemblance of shape.