cellarius

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin cellārius.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˌsɛˈlaː.ri.ʏs/
  • Hyphenation: cel‧la‧ri‧us

Noun

cellarius m (plural cellarii)

  1. (Roman Catholicism) A monk tasked with the economic administration of a monastery.

Latin

Etymology

From cella (“storeroom, pantry”) +‎ -ārius.

Noun

cellārius m (genitive cellāriī or cellārī); second declension

  1. keeper of a storeroom, steward, butler

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cellārius cellāriī
Genitive cellāriī
cellārī1		 cellāriōrum
Dative cellāriō cellāriīs
Accusative cellārium cellāriōs
Ablative cellāriō cellāriīs
Vocative cellārie cellāriī

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

Descendants
  • → Byzantine Greek: κελλάριος (kellários)
    • → Old East Slavic: кела́рь (kelárĭ)
    • → Old Georgian: კელარი (ḳelari)

References
  • “cellarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cellarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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