cellarium

English

Etymology

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

Noun

cellarium (plural cellaria)

(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) IPA^(key): /kelˈlaː.ri.um/, [kɛlˈlʲäːriʊ̃ˑ]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃelˈla.ri.um/, [t͡ʃelˈläːrium]

Noun

cellārium n (genitive cellāriī or cellārī); second declension

(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.

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