Cerealia

See also: cerealia

English

Etymology

From the Classical Latin Cereālia.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɛɹɪˈeɪlɪə/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛɹɪˈɑːlɪə/, /ˌsɛɹɪˈeɪlɪə/

Proper noun

Cerealia

1. (history) A festival in Ancient Rome, celebrated on the 10th of April, for the grain goddess Ceres.
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 12:

     The club of Marlott alone lived to uphold the local Cerealia. It had walked for hundreds of years, and it walked still.

Translations

festival celebrated in honour of Ceres

• Latin: Cereālia n pl

Further reading

• Cerealia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Alternative forms

• Ceriālia

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ke.reˈaː.li.a/, [kɛreˈäːlʲiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃe.reˈa.li.a/, [t͡ʃereˈäːliä]

Etymology 1

A substantivisation of the neuter plural forms of the Classical Latin adjective Cereālis (“of, pertaining to, or devoted to Ceres”).

Proper noun

Cereālia n pl (genitive Cereālium); third declension

1. Cerealia (festival celebrated in honour of Ceres)

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem), plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	Cereālia
Genitive	Cereālium
Dative	Cereālibus
Accusative	Cereālia
Ablative	Cereālibus
Vocative	Cereālia

References

• “Cĕrĕālĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Cĕrĕālĭa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “291/3”
• “Ceriālia” on page 302/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Etymology 2

Regularly declined forms of Cereālis (“of, pertaining to, or devoted to Ceres”).

Adjective

Cereālia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of Cereālis