Cerealia
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See also: cerealia
English
Etymology
From the Classical Latin Cereālia.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Cerealia
- (history) A festival in Ancient Rome, celebrated on the 10th of April, for the grain goddess Ceres.
- 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 12:
- The club of Marlott alone lived to uphold the local Cerealia. It had walked for hundreds of years, and it walked still.
Translations
festival celebrated in honour of Ceres
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Further reading
Latin
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ke.reˈaː.li.a/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃe.reˈa.li.a/,
Etymology 1
A substantivisation of the neuter plural forms of the Classical Latin adjective Cereālis (“of, pertaining to, or devoted to Ceres”).
Proper noun
Cereālia n pl (genitive Cereālium); third declension
- Cerealia (festival celebrated in honour of Ceres)
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem), plural only.
| plural | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Cereālia |
| genitive | Cereālium |
| dative | Cereālibus |
| accusative | Cereālia |
| ablative | Cereālibus |
| vocative | Cereālia |
References
- “Cĕrĕālĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Cĕrĕālĭa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “291/3”
- “Ceriālia” on page 302/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
Etymology 2
Regularly declined forms of Cereālis (“of, pertaining to, or devoted to Ceres”).
Adjective
Cereālia