cellarium

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.ʊ̃]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃelˈla.ri.um/, [t͡ʃelˈlaː.ri.um]

Noun

cellārium n (genitive cellāriī or cellārī); second declension

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

Declension

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).

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
  • Middle High German: keller
    • German: Keller
• → Koine Greek: κελλάριον (kellárion)
  • Byzantine Greek: κελλάριν (kellárin)
    • Greek: κελάρι (kelári)
      • → Aromanian: chilar
    • → Ottoman Turkish: كلار‎ (kılar, kilar, kiler), كیلار‎ (kılar, kilar, kiler), كلر‎ (kiler)
      • Turkish: kiler
      • → Armenian: քիլէր (kʿilēr)
      • → Bulgarian: килѐр (kilѐr), кила̀р (kilàr), киля̀р (kiljàr)
      • → Macedonian: ќилер (ḱiler)
      • → Serbo-Croatian:

        Cyrillic: ћѝлер, кѝлер, кѝјер

        Latin: ćìler, kìler, kìjer

• → 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