Marcellus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Marcellus.

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɛləs

Proper noun

Marcellus

A male given name.
A village in Michigan
A town and village in New York

Usage notes

Mainly historical usage in English, pertaining to Rome and early Christian saints.

Related terms

Marcel, Marcus, Mark, Martin
female given names: Marcella, Marcelle

Translations

male given name

Basque: Martzelo m
Breton: Marc'hell m
Catalan: Marcel m
Franco-Provençal: Mar'i
French: Marcel (fr)
Galician: Marcelo (gl) m
Irish: Marcellus m

Italian: Marcello (it)
Occitan: Marcèl m, Marcèu m, Marçau m
Polish: Marcel (pl) m
Portuguese: Marcelo (pt) m
Sicilian: Marcellu m
Spanish: Marcelo (es)
Vietnamese: Marcellô

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of Mārculus, which is a diminutive of Marcus.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /maːrˈkel.lus/, [maːrˈkɛl.lʊs]

Proper noun

Mārcellus m (genitive Mārcellī); second declension

A name of a plebeian Roman gens.

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	Mārcellus	Mārcellī
Genitive	Mārcellī	Mārcellōrum
Dative	Mārcellō	Mārcellīs
Accusative	Mārcellum	Mārcellōs
Ablative	Mārcellō	Mārcellīs
Vocative	Mārcelle	Mārcellī

Related terms

Mārcella

References

Marcellus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Marcellus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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