Marcellus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Marcellus. Doublet of Marcel.

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɛləs

Proper noun

Marcellus

A male given name from Latin.
A village in Michigan
A town and village in New York

Usage notes

Mainly historical usage in English, pertaining to Rome and early Christian saints.

Related terms

Marcel, Marcus, Mark, Martin
female given names: Marcella, Marcelle

Translations

male given name

Basque: Martzelo m
Breton: Marc'hell m
Catalan: Marcel (ca) m
Franco-Provençal: Mar'i
French: Marcel (fr)
Galician: Marcelo (gl) m
Hungarian: Marcell (hu) sg
Irish: Marcellus m
Italian: Marcello (it)
Occitan: Marcèl m, Marcèu m, Marçau m
Polish: Marcel (pl) m
Portuguese: Marcelo (pt) m
Sicilian: Marcellu m
Spanish: Marcelo (es)
Vietnamese: Marcellô

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of Mārculus, which is a diminutive of Mārcus.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /maːrˈkel.lus/, [mäːrˈkɛlːʲʊs̠]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /marˈt͡ʃel.lus/, [märˈt͡ʃɛlːus]

Proper noun

Mārcellus m (genitive Mārcellī, feminine Mārcella); second declension

A name of a plebeian Roman gens.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	Mārcellus	Mārcellī
Genitive	Mārcellī	Mārcellōrum
Dative	Mārcellō	Mārcellīs
Accusative	Mārcellum	Mārcellōs
Ablative	Mārcellō	Mārcellīs
Vocative	Mārcelle	Mārcellī

Related terms

Mārcella
Mārcellia
Mārcelliānus
Mārcellīnus

Descendants

Catalan: Marcel
French: Marcel
Italian: Marcello
Portuguese: Marcelo
Romanian: Marcel
Spanish: Marcelo
→ Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌺𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍃 (markaillius)

References

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

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