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Dutch
Etymology
From Latin cellārius.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌsɛˈlaː.ri.ʏs/
- Hyphenation: cel‧la‧ri‧us
Noun
cellarius m (plural cellarii)
- (Roman Catholicism) a monk tasked with the economic administration of a monastery
Latin
Etymology
From cella (“storeroom, pantry”) + -ārius.
Noun
cellārius m (genitive cellāriī or cellārī); second declension
- keeper of a storeroom, steward, butler
Declension
Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “cellarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cellarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.