cella

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See also: Cella and cel·la

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cella. Doublet of cell.

Pronunciation

Noun

cella (plural cellae)

  1. (architecture) The central, enclosed part of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticos.
    • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
      Room by room, Sarrasine advances to the cella of the hermaphrodite god, veiled like Spenser's Venus.

Aragonese

Etymology

From a shortened form of Latin supercilium.

Noun

cella f

  1. eyebrow

Catalan

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Etymology

Inherited from Latin cilia, plural of cilium.

Pronunciation

Noun

cella f (plural celles)

  1. eyebrow

Derived terms

Further reading

French

Noun

cella f (plural cellas)

  1. cella

Further reading

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese (compare Portuguese celha), from Latin cilia (compare Spanish ceja), from cilium.

Pronunciation

Noun

cella f (plural cellas)

  1. eyebrow
    Synonym: sobrecella

References

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin cella (“chamber, small room”).

Pronunciation

Noun

cella (plural cellák)

  1. cell (room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates)
    Hyponym: börtöncella
  2. cell (small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person)
  3. (architecture) cella (central, enclosed part of an ancient temple)
  4. (biology, archaic) cell (basic unit of a living organism)
    Synonym: sejt
  5. cell (each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb)
  6. (electricity) cell (basic unit of a battery)
  7. (communication) cell (region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network)
  8. (statistics) cell (unit in a statistical array where a row and a column intersect)
    Synonym: mező

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative cella cellák
accusative cellát cellákat
dative cellának celláknak
instrumental cellával cellákkal
causal-final celláért cellákért
translative cellává cellákká
terminative celláig cellákig
essive-formal cellaként cellákként
essive-modal — —
inessive cellában cellákban
superessive cellán cellákon
adessive cellánál celláknál
illative cellába cellákba
sublative cellára cellákra
allative cellához cellákhoz
elative cellából cellákból
delative celláról cellákról
ablative cellától celláktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		celláé celláké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		celláéi cellákéi
Possessive forms of cella
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. cellám celláim
2nd person sing. cellád celláid
3rd person sing. cellája cellái
1st person plural cellánk celláink
2nd person plural cellátok celláitok
3rd person plural cellájuk celláik

Derived terms

Compound words

References

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading

  • cella in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • cella in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

Italian

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Etymology

From Latin cella, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelnā.

Pronunciation

Noun

cella f (plural celle)

  1. cell

Derived terms

Related terms

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kelnā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelneh₂, which consists of Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”) and a suffix -nā.

Cognates include Latin clam, Latin color, Proto-Germanic *helaną.

Pronunciation

Noun

cella f (genitive cellae); first declension

  1. a small room, a hut, storeroom
  2. a barn, granary
  3. the part of a temple where the image of a god stood; altar, sanctuary, shrine, pantry

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cella cellae
Genitive cellae cellārum
Dative cellae cellīs
Accusative cellam cellās
Ablative cellā cellīs
Vocative cella cellae

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

References

  • “cella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cella in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • cella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “cella”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
  • “cella”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “cella”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

cella m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of celle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

cella f

  1. definite singular of celle
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