Marcellus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Marcellus. Doublet of Marcel.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛləs

Proper noun

Marcellus

1. A male given name from Latin.
2. A village in Michigan
3. A town and village in New York

Usage notes

Mainly historical usage in English, pertaining to Rome and early Christian saints.

Related terms

• Marcel, Marcus, Mark, Martin
• female given names: Marcella, Marcelle

Translations

male given name

• Basque: Martzelo m
• Breton: Marc'hell m
• Catalan: Marcel (ca) m
• Franco-Provençal: Mar'i
• French: Marcel (fr)
• Galician: Marcelo (gl) m
• Hungarian: Marcell (hu) sg
• Irish: Marcellus m
• Italian: Marcello (it)
• Occitan: Marcèl m, Marcèu m, Marçau m
• Polish: Marcel (pl) m
• Portuguese: Marcelo (pt) m
• Sicilian: Marcellu m
• Spanish: Marcelo (es)
• Vietnamese: Marcellô

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of Mārculus, which is a diminutive of Mārcus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /maːrˈkel.lus/, [mäːrˈkɛlːʲʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /marˈt͡ʃel.lus/, [märˈt͡ʃɛlːus]

Proper noun

Mārcellus m (genitive Mārcellī, feminine Mārcella); second declension

1. A name of a plebeian Roman gens.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	Mārcellus	Mārcellī
Genitive	Mārcellī	Mārcellōrum
Dative	Mārcellō	Mārcellīs
Accusative	Mārcellum	Mārcellōs
Ablative	Mārcellō	Mārcellīs
Vocative	Mārcelle	Mārcellī

Related terms

• Mārcella
• Mārcellia
• Mārcelliānus
• Mārcellīnus

Descendants

• Catalan: Marcel
• French: Marcel
• Italian: Marcello
• Portuguese: Marcelo
• Romanian: Marcel
• Spanish: Marcelo
• → Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌺𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍃 (markaillius)

References

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