cellarium
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Late Latin cellārium (“storeroom”). Doublet of cellar.
NounEdit
cellarium (plural cellaria)
- (historical) A cellar used for storage in an abbey.
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From cella (“closet, hut, granary”) + -ārium (re-substantivation), via *cellārius (“relating to closets, huts, granaries”).
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kelˈlaː.ri.um/, [kɛl̠ˈl̠aː.ɾi.ʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃelˈla.ri.um/, [t͡ʃɛlˈlaː.ri.um]
NounEdit
cellārium n (genitive cellāriī or cellārī); second declension
DeclensionEdit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cellārium | cellāria |
Genitive | cellāriī cellārī1 |
cellāriōrum |
Dative | cellāriō | cellāriīs |
Accusative | cellārium | cellāria |
Ablative | cellāriō | cellāriīs |
Vocative | cellārium | cellāria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
DescendantsEdit
Inherited Romance descendants:
Borrowings:
- → Albanian: qilar
- → Middle Dutch: kellere
- Dutch: kelder
- → Middle Low German: keller
- → Esperanto: kelo
- → Old High German: kellari
- → Koine Greek: κελλάριον (kellárion)
- → 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