cella
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Latin cella. Doublet of cell.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cella (plural cellae)
- (architecture) The central, enclosed part of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticos. [from 17th c.]
- 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
- Room by room, Sarrasine advances to the cella of the hermaphrodite god, veiled like Spenser's Venus.
Aragonese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From a shortened form of Latin supercilium.
Noun[edit]
cella f
Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Latin cilia, plural of cilium.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): (Central) [ˈsɛ.ʎə]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [ˈsə.ʎə]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈse.ʎa]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
cella f (plural celles)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “cella” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “cella”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “cella” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “cella” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French[edit]
Noun[edit]
cella f (plural cellas)
Further reading[edit]
- “cella”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?] (compare Portuguese celha), from Latin cilia (compare Spanish ceja), from cilium.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cella f (plural cellas)
- eyebrow
- Synonym: sobrecella
References[edit]
- “cella” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “cella” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “cella” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Hungarian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin cella (“chamber, small room”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cella (plural cellák)
- cell (room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates)
- Hyponym: börtöncella
- cell (small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person)
- (architecture) cella (central, enclosed part of an ancient temple)
- (biology, archaic) cell (basic unit of a living organism)
- Synonym: sejt
- cell (each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb)
- (electricity) cell (basic unit of a battery)
- (communication) cell (region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network)
- (statistics) cell (unit in a statistical array where a row and a column intersect)
- Synonym: mező
Declension[edit]
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | cella | cellák |
| accusative | cellát | cellákat |
| dative | cellának | celláknak |
| instrumental | cellával | cellákkal |
| causal-final | celláért | cellákért |
| translative | cellává | cellákká |
| terminative | celláig | cellákig |
| essive-formal | cellaként | cellákként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | cellában | cellákban |
| superessive | cellán | cellákon |
| adessive | cellánál | celláknál |
| illative | cellába | cellákba |
| sublative | cellára | cellákra |
| allative | cellához | cellákhoz |
| elative | cellából | cellákból |
| delative | celláról | cellákról |
| ablative | cellától | celláktól |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
celláé | celláké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
celláéi | cellákéi |
| Possessive forms of cella | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | cellám | celláim |
| 2nd person sing. | cellád | celláid |
| 3rd person sing. | cellája | cellái |
| 1st person plural | cellánk | celláink |
| 2nd person plural | cellátok | celláitok |
| 3rd person plural | cellájuk | celláik |
Derived terms[edit]
Compound words
References[edit]
- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Further reading[edit]
- cella in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- cella in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin cella, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelnā.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cella f (plural celle)
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Italic *kelnā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelneh₂, which consists of Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”) and a suffix -nā.
Cognates include Latin clam, Latin color, Proto-Germanic *helaną.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkel.la/, [ˈkɛlːʲä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃel.la/, [ˈt͡ʃɛlːä]
Noun[edit]
cella f (genitive cellae); first declension
- a small room, a hut, storeroom
- a barn, granary
- the part of a temple where the image of a god stood; altar, sanctuary, shrine, pantry
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cella | cellae |
| Genitive | cellae | cellārum |
| Dative | cellae | cellīs |
| Accusative | cellam | cellās |
| Ablative | cellā | cellīs |
| Vocative | cella | cellae |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Albanian: qelizë
- Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܩܠܐ (qellā)
- Basque: gela
- Breton: kell
- Catalan: cel·la
- English: cell
- → German: Zelle, Celle
- → Polish: cela
- Greek: κελί (kelí)
- Ancient Greek: κέλλα (kélla)
- Irish: cill
- Italian: cella
- Old French: cele
- Old Galician-Portuguese: cela
- Russian: ке́лья (kélʹja)
- Serbo-Croatian: ćelija
- Spanish: cela, celda, cilla
- Swedish: cell
- Welsh: cell
Further reading[edit]
- “cell”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “cella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
References[edit]
- “cella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cella in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- cella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “cella”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[1]
- “cella”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “cella”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
cella m or f
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Noun[edit]
cella f
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