sacellum

Borrowed from Latin sacellum.

sacellum (plural sacella)

1. A small chapel, as a monument within a church.
2. (historical) In Ancient Rome, a shrine open to the sky, sometimes used for sacrificial purposes, or in honor of the divine.

A diminutive from sacer (“sacred, dedicated”) +‎ -lus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /saˈkel.lum/, [saˈkɛl.lʊ̃]

sacellum n (genitive sacellī); second declension

1. A sanctuary dedicated to a deity, usually open to the sky
2. A chapel

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• (chapel): aedicula

• sacer

• English: sacellum

• sacellum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sacellum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sacellum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• sacellum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• sacellum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sacellum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin