cellarium

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

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

Inherited Romance descendants:

• Aromanian: tsilar
• Asturian: 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
    • Norwegian: kjeller
    • Swedish: källare
      • → Finnish: kellari
• → Esperanto: kelo
• → Old High German: kellari
  • German: Keller
• → Greek: κελάρι (kelári)
  • → Aromanian: chilar
• → Spanish: celario, cellario

ReferencesEdit

• 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