cellarium

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Late Latin cellārium (“storeroom”).

NounEdit

cellarium (plural cellaria)

1. (historical) A cellar used for storage in an abbey.

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From cella (“closet, hut, granary”) +‎ -ārium (re-substantivation), via *cellārius (“relating to closets, huts, granaries”).

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kelˈlaː.ri.um/, [kɛlˈlaː.ri.ũ]

NounEdit

cellārium n (genitive cellāriī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) storeroom, larder, cellar, pantry

InflectionEdit

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	cellārium	cellāria
genitive	cellāriī	cellāriōrum
dative	cellāriō	cellāriīs
accusative	cellārium	cellāria
ablative	cellāriō	cellāriīs
vocative	cellārium	cellāria

DescendantsEdit

• Albanian: qilar
• Aromanian: tsilar
• Asturian: cellera
• Catalan: celler
• Dutch: kelder
• English: cellar
• Esperanto: kelo
• Estonian: kelder
• Finnish: kellari
• French: cellier
• Friulian: celâr
• German: Keller

• Greek: κελάρι (kelári)
• Icelandic: kjallari
• Italian: cellaio
• Norman: ch'lyi (Jersey)
• Norwegian: kjeller
• Portuguese: celeiro
• Romanian: celar
• Spanish: cillero, celario, cellario
• Swedish: källare

ReferencesEdit

• cellarium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “cellarium”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “cellarium” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)