cellar

English

Alternative forms

• seller (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛlə(ɹ)
• Homophone: seller
• Hyphenation: cel‧lar

Etymology 1

From Middle English celer, seler, from Anglo-Norman celer, Old French celier (modern cellier), from Late Latin cellārium, from Latin cella. Doublet of cellarium.

Noun

cellar (plural cellars)

1. An enclosed underground space, often under a building, used for storage or shelter.
2. A wine collection, especially when stored in a cellar.
3. (slang) Last place in a league or competition.
4. (Boston) A basement.

Derived terms

• beer cellar
• cellar door
• cellar dweller
• cellar spider
• cellar-door
• cellarage
• cellarer
• cyclone cellar
• down cellar
• night-cellar
• root cellar
• salt cellar
• salt-cellar
• storm cellar
• wine cellar

 

Translations

underground space

• Albanian: qilar (sq) m, qeli (sq), gërdhet
• Arabic: قَبْو‎ m (qabw), سِرْدَاب‎ m (sirdāb)

  Egyptian Arabic: قبوة‎ f (ʾabwa)

• Armenian: նկուղ (hy) (nkuł)
• Azerbaijani: zirzəmi
• Bashkir: баҙ (bað)
• Belarusian: склеп m (skljep), падва́л m (padvál), лёх m (ljox), по́граб m (póhrab), піўні́ца f (piŭníca)
• Bengali: ভিত্তি (bhitti)
• Berber:

  Tashelhit: tasraft f

• Bulgarian: мазе́ (bg) n (mazé), и́зба (bg) f (ízba)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: soterrani (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᎣᏏ (osi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 地窖 (zh) (dìjiào), 地下室 (zh) (dìxiàshì)

• Czech: sklep (cs) m
• Danish: kælder (da) c
• Dutch: kelder (nl) m
• Erzya: мацт (mact)
• Esperanto: kelo (eo)
• Estonian: kelder
• Faroese: kjallari m
• Finnish: kellari (fi)
• French: cave (fr) f
• Galician: adega (gl) f, soto (gl) m
• Georgian: სარდაფი (sardapi)
• German: Keller (de) m
• Greek: κελάρι (el) n (kelári), υπόγειο (el) n (ypógeio)

  Ancient: κρύπτη f (krúptē), πιθεών m (pitheṓn), ὑπόγειον n (hupógeion)

• Greenlandic: naqqup-ilua
• Hebrew: מַרְתֵּף‎ (he) m (martéf)
• Hindi: तहख़ाना m (tahxānā), सुरागार (hi) m (surāgār)
• Hungarian: pince (hu)
• Hutterisch: Keller
• Icelandic: kjallari m
• Ido: kelero (io)
• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: cantina (it) f, scantinato (it) m, cantinato m, seminterrato (it) m
• Japanese: 地下室 (ちかしつ, chikashitsu), 穴蔵 (あなぐら, anagura), 穴倉 (あなぐら, anagura), 窖 (ja) (あなぐら, anagura)
• Kannada: ನೆಲಮನೆ (kn) (nelamane)
• Kashubian: sklep m
• Kazakh: төле (töle)
• Khmer: លេណ (lein)
• Korean: 지하실(地下室) (ko) (jihasil)
• Kyrgyz: погреб (pogreb), подвал (podval)
• Lao: ຫ້ອງໃຕ້ດິນ (hǭng tai din)
• Latvian: pagrabs m
• Lithuanian: rūsys m
• Macedonian: визба f (vizba), подрум m (podrum)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: зоорь (mn) (zoorʹ), суурь (mn) (suurʹ)

• Norman: ch'lyi m
• Northern Sami: geallir
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjeller (no) m

  Nynorsk: kjellar m

• Ojibwe: moonikaan
• Old Norse: kjallari m, kellari m
• Persian: زیرزمین‎ (fa) (zirzamin), سرداب‎ (fa) (sardâb)
• Plautdietsch: Kjala m
• Polish: piwnica (pl) f, loch (pl) m
• Portuguese: cave (pt) f , porão (pt) m (Brazil)
• Romanian: pivniță (ro) f, beci (ro) n
• Russian: подва́л (ru) m (podvál), по́греб (ru) m (pógreb)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̀друм m

  Roman: pòdrum (sh) m

• Slovak: pivnica f
• Slovene: klet (sl) f
• Spanish: sótano (es) m
• Swedish: källare (sv) c
• Tagalog: silong
• Tajik: таҳхона (tahxona), ӯра (üra)
• Thai: ห้องใต้ดิน (hɔ̂ng-dtâi-din)
• Turkish: bodrum (tr)
• Turkmen: podwal
• Ukrainian: льох (uk) m (lʹox), підва́л m (pidvál), по́гріб m (póhrib), пивни́ця f (pyvnýcja)
• Urdu: گودام‎ m (godām), سرداب‎ m (sardāb)
• Uyghur: ئورا‎ (ora), گېرەم‎ (gërem), گەمە‎ (geme)
• Uzbek: yertoʻla (uz), podval (uz)
• Venetian: vòlt m
• Vietnamese: hầm chứa, hầm rượu (vi)
• Welsh: daeargell f
• Yiddish: קעלער‎ m (keler)

wine collection

• Albanian: qilar (sq) m
• Bulgarian: вина́рска и́зба f (vinárska ízba)
• Catalan: celler (ca) m, cava (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: vinný sklep m
• Dutch: wijnkelder (nl) m
• Finnish: viinikellari (fi)
• French: cave (fr) f
• Galician: adega (gl) f
• Georgian: მარანი (ka) (marani)
• Italian: cella (it) f, cantina (it) f, bottiglieria f
• Polish: piwnica win f
• Portuguese: adega (pt) f, garrafeira f
• Romanian: pivniță (ro) f, beci (ro) n
• Russian: ви́нный по́греб m (vínnyj pógreb)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вина̀рија f

  Roman: vinàrija (sh) f

• Spanish: bodega (es) f, cava (es) f
• Turkish: mahzen (tr)
• Ukrainian: ви́нниця f (výnnycja)
• Venetian: càneva (vec) f

slang: last place in competition

• Catalan: cua (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: jumbosija (fi)
• Portuguese: lanterna (pt), lanterninha (pt)
• Spanish: cola (es) f (physical place, like in a race), sótano (es) m (table or list place, like in teams championship)

Verb

cellar (third-person singular simple present cellars, present participle cellaring, simple past and past participle cellared)

1. (transitive) To store in a cellar.
   • 2008 June 25, Lucy Burningham, “Beer Lovers Make Room for Brews Worth a Wait”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Mr. VandenBerghe says he’s cellared such memorable bottles as the Batch 1 Adam from Hair of the Dog, a 14-year-old ale from Portland, Ore., that’s 10 percent alcohol, and the Trappistes Rochefort 10, a Quadrupel Belgian ale that peaks around age 10.

Translations

to store in cellar

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: pitää kellarissa, kellaroida (fi)
• Portuguese: armazenar (pt) (na cave/adega)

Etymology 2

From 15th Century English saler, from French salière, from Latin salarius (“relating to salt”), from Latin sal (“salt”).

Noun

cellar (plural cellars)

1. salt cellar
2. (historical) A small dish for holding salt.

Anagrams

• caller, re-call, recall