cella
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Learned borrowing from Latin cella. Doublet of cell.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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.
- 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
AragoneseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From a shortened form of Latin supercilium.
NounEdit
cella f
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin cilia, plural of cilium.
PronunciationEdit
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /ˈsə.ʎə/
- (Central) IPA(key): /ˈsɛ.ʎə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈse.ʎa/
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NounEdit
cella f (plural celles)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “cella” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “cella”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “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.
FrenchEdit
NounEdit
cella f (plural cellas)
Further readingEdit
- “cella”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Portuguese [Term?] (compare Portuguese celha), from Latin cilia (compare Spanish ceja), from cilium.
NounEdit
cella f (plural cellas)
HungarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin cella (“chamber, small room”).[1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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
DeclensionEdit
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony) | ||
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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 termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ 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 readingEdit
- 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 2023)
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin cella, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelnā.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
cella f (plural celle)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
AnagramsEdit
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Italic *kelnā, 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.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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
DeclensionEdit
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 termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Albanian: qelizë
- Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܩܠܐ (qellā)
- Basque: gela
- Breton: kell
- Catalan: cel·la
- English: cell
- → German: Zelle
- → Polish: cela
- Greek: κελί (kelí)
- Ancient Greek: κέλλα (kélla)
- Irish: cill
- Italian: cella
- Old French: cele
- Old Portuguese: cela
- Russian: ке́лья (kélʹja)
- Serbo-Croatian: ćelija
- Spanish: cela, celda, cilla
- Swedish: cell
- Welsh: cell
Further readingEdit
- cell in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- “cella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ReferencesEdit
- “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 BokmålEdit
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
cella m or f
Norwegian NynorskEdit
NounEdit
cella f