cellarius

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Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin cellārius.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˌsɛˈlaː.ri.ʏs/
  • Hyphenation: cel‧la‧ri‧us

Noun[edit]

cellarius m (plural cellarii)

  1. (Roman Catholicism) A monk tasked with the economic administration of a monastery.

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From cella (“storeroom, pantry”) +‎ -ārius.

Noun[edit]

cellārius m (genitive cellāriī or cellārī); second declension

  1. keeper of a storeroom, steward, butler

Declension[edit]

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cellārius cellāriī
Genitive cellāriī
cellārī1 		cellāriōrum
Dative cellāriō cellāriīs
Accusative cellārium cellāriōs
Ablative cellāriō cellāriīs
Vocative cellārie cellāriī

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • → Byzantine Greek: κελλάριος (kellários)

References[edit]

  • “cellarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cellarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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