different between cellar vs cella

English

Alternative forms

• seller (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?l?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?(?)
• Homophone: seller
• Hyphenation: cel?lar

Etymology 1

From Middle English celer, seler, from Anglo-Norman celer, Old French celier (modern cellier), from Late Latin cell?rium, from Latin cella. Doublet of cellarium.

Noun

cellar (plural cellars)

1. An enclosed underground space, often under a building, used for storage or shelter.
2. A wine collection, especially when stored in a cellar.
3. (slang) Last place in a league or competition.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

cellar (third-person singular simple present cellars, present participle cellaring, simple past and past participle cellared)

1. (transitive) To store in a cellar.

Translations

Etymology 2

From 15th Century English saler, from French salière, from Latin salarius (“relating to salt”), from Latin sal (“salt”)

Noun

cellar (plural cellars)

1. salt cellar
2. (historical) A small dish for holding salt.

Anagrams

• caller, re-call, recall

English

Etymology

From Latin cella. Doublet of cell.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?

Noun

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.

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?s?.??/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?s?.??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?se.?a/

Noun

cella f (plural celles)

1. eyebrow

Derived terms

• cellut

Further reading

• “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.

French

Noun

cella f (plural cellas)

1. cella

Galician

Etymology

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

Noun

cella f (plural cellas)

1. eyebrow

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?s?l??]
• Hyphenation: cel?la
• Rhymes: -l?

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: mez?

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• cella in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). 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 2021)

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cella, from Proto-Indo-European *?eln?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???l.la/
• Rhymes: -?lla

Noun

cella f (plural celle)

1. cell

Derived terms

• cella solare
• fotocella
• semicella

Related terms

• cellaio
• cellario
• celliere
• cellula

Anagrams

• calle

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *?elneh?, which consists of Proto-Indo-European *?el- (“to cover”) and a suffix -n?.Cognate to Proto-Indo-European *?el-: Latin clam, Latin celo, Proto-Germanic *helan?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kel.la/, [?k?l??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?t??el.la/, [?t???l??]

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.

Derived terms

• cell?rium
• cell?rius
• cellula

Descendants

Further reading

• 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

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, 1883–1887)
• cella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• cella in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• 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

• cellen

Noun

cella m or f

1. definite feminine singular of celle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

cella f

1. definite singular of celle