cella

See also: Cella and cel·la

English

Etymology

From Latin cella. Compare cell.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlə/

Noun

cella (plural cellae)

1. (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.

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Catalan

Etymology

From (compare Occitan cilha), from Latin cilia (compare Spanish ceja), from cilium (compare French cil), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-yo-m, from *ḱel- (“to cover”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈsɛ.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈsə.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈse.ʎa]

Noun

cella f (plural celles)

1. eyebrow

Derived terms

• cellut

Further reading

• “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.

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French

Noun

cella f (plural cellas)

1. cella

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?] (compare Portuguese celha), from Latin cilia (compare Spanish ceja), from cilium.

Noun

cella f (plural cellas)

1. eyebrow

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin cella, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelnā.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛlla

Noun

cella f (plural celle)

1. cell

Derived terms

• cella solare

Related terms

• cellaio
• cellario
• celliere
• cellula

Anagrams

• calle

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱelneh₂, which consists of Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”) and a suffix -nā. Cognate to Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-: Latin clam, Latin celo, Proto-Germanic *helaną.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkel.la/, [ˈkɛlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃel.la/, [ˈt͡ʃɛlːä]

Noun

cella f (genitive cellae); first declension

1. a small room, a hut, storeroom
2. a barn, granary
3. the part of a temple where the image of a god stood; altar, sanctuary, shrine, pantry

Declension

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

• cellārium
• cellārius
• cellula

Descendants

• Albanian: qelizë
• Basque: gela
• Breton: kell
• Catalan: cel·la
• English: cell
• Galician: cela
• Greek: κελί (kelí)
• Ancient Greek: κέλλα (kélla)
• Irish: cill
• Italian: cella
• Old French: cele
• Portuguese: cela
• Russian: ке́лья (kélʹja)
• Serbo-Croatian: ćelija
• Spanish: cela, celda, cilla
• Swedish: cell
• Welsh: cell

Further reading

• “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

• “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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• cellen

Noun

cella m or f

1. definite feminine singular of celle

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

cella f

1. definite singular of celle