cellarium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin cellārium (“storeroom”). Doublet of cellar.

Noun

cellarium (plural cellaria)

1. (historical) A cellar used for storage in an abbey.

Latin

Etymology

From cella (“closet, hut, granary”) +‎ -ārium (re-substantivation), via *cellārius (“relating to closets, huts, granaries”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kelˈlaː.ri.um/, [kɛlˈlʲäːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃelˈla.ri.um/, [t͡ʃelˈläːrium]

Noun

cellārium n (genitive cellāriī or cellārī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) storeroom, larder, cellar, pantry

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cellārium	cellāria
Genitive	cellāriī cellārī1	cellāriōrum
Dative	cellāriō	cellāriīs
Accusative	cellārium	cellāria
Ablative	cellāriō	cellāriīs
Vocative	cellārium	cellāria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Eastern Romance
  • Aromanian: tsilar
  • Romanian: celar
• Italian: cellaio
• Old French: celier
  • French: cellier
  • Norman: ch'lyi (Jersey)
  • → Italian: celliere (archaic)
  • → Middle English: celer, seler
    • English: cellar
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: celler
  • Occitan: celièr
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: celâr
• West Iberian
  • Asturian: celleru, cellera
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: celeyro
    • Galician: celeiro
    • Portuguese: celeiro
  • Spanish: cillero
• → English: cellarium (learned)
• → Proto-West Germanic: *kellārī (see there for further descendants)
• → Koine Greek: κελλάριον (kellárion) (see there for further descendants)
• → Spanish: celario, cellario

References

• “cellarium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cellarium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cellarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.