cellarium

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin cellārium (“storeroom”). Doublet of cellar.

Noun

cellarium (plural cellaria)

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

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kelˈlaː.ri.um/, [kɛlˈlaː.ri.ũː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃelˈla.ri.um/, [t͡ʃelˈlaː.ri.um]

Noun

cellārium n (genitive cellāriī); second declension

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

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cellārium	cellāria
Genitive	cellāriī	cellāriōrum
Dative	cellāriō	cellāriīs
Accusative	cellārium	cellāria
Ablative	cellāriō	cellāriīs
Vocative	cellārium	cellāria

Descendants

Inherited Romance descendants:

• Aromanian: tsilar
• Asturian: celleru, cellera
• Friulian: celâr
• Old French: celier
  • → English: cellar
  • French: cellier
  • → Italian: celliere (archaic)
  • Norman: ch'lyi (Jersey)
• Old Occitan: [Term?]
  • Catalan: celler
  • Occitan: celièr
• Italian: cellaio
• Old Portuguese: celeyro
  • Galician: celeiro
  • Portuguese: celeiro
• Romanian: celar
• Spanish: cillero

Borrowings:

• → Albanian: qilar
• → Middle Dutch: kellere
  • Dutch: kelder
• → Middle Low German: keller
  • → Estonian: kelder
  • → Old Norse: kellari
    • Icelandic: kjallari
    • Danish: kælder
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: kjeller
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: kjellar
    • Swedish: källare
      • → Finnish: kellari
• → Esperanto: kelo
• → Old High German: kellari
  • German: Keller
• → Greek: κελάρι (kelári)
  • → Aromanian: chilar
• → Spanish: celario, cellario

References

• cellarium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cellarium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cellarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette