cella

From Latin cella. Compare cell.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlə/

cella (plural cellae)

1. (architecture) The central, enclosed part of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticos. [from 17th c.]
   • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:

     Room by room, Sarrasine advances to the cella of the hermaphrodite god, veiled like Spenser's Venus.

From Old Occitan (compare Occitan cilha), from Latin cilia (compare Spanish ceja), from cilium (compare French cil), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-yo-m, from *ḱel- (“to cover”).

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈsə.ʎə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ʎə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ʎa/

cella f (plural celles)

1. eyebrow

• cellut

• “cella” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cella” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “cella” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cella” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

cella f (plural cellas)

1. cella

From Old Portuguese [Term?] (compare Portuguese celha), from Latin cilia (compare Spanish ceja), from cilium.

cella f (plural cellas)

1. eyebrow

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

• Rhymes: -ɛlla

cella f (plural celle)

1. cell

• cella solare

• cellaio
• cellario
• celliere
• cellula

• calle

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱelneh₂, which consists of Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”) and a suffix -nā. Cognate to Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-: Latin clam, Latin celo, Proto-Germanic *helaną.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkel.la/, [ˈkɛl.la]

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

First declension.

• cellārium
• cellārius
• cellula

• cell in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• cella in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• 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, 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

• cellen

cella m or f

1. definite feminine singular of celle

cella f

1. definite singular of celle