cella

Learned borrowing from Latin cella. Doublet of cell.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlə/
• Rhymes: -ɛlə

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.

From a shortened form of Latin supercilium.

cella f

1. eyebrow

Inherited from Latin cilia, plural of cilium.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈsɛ.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈsə.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈse.ʎa]

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cella f (plural celles)

1. eyebrow

• cellut

• “cella” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cella”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “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.

cella f (plural cellas)

1. cella

• “cella”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈθeʎɐ], (western) [ˈseʎɐ]

cella f (plural cellas)

1. eyebrow

   Synonym: sobrecella

• “cella” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cella” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cella” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Latin cella (“chamber, small room”).[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɛlːɒ]
• Hyphenation: cel‧la
• Rhymes: -lɒ

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: mező

• cella in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). 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 2024)

From Latin cella, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelnā.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛl.la/
• Rhymes: -ɛlla
• Hyphenation: cèl‧la

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cella f (plural celle)

1. cell

• cella solare
• fotocella
• semicella

• cellaio
• cellario
• celliere
• cellula

• calle

From Proto-Italic *kelnā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelneh₂, which consists of Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”) and a suffix -nā.

Cognates include Latin clam, Latin color, Proto-Germanic *helaną.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkel.la/, [ˈkɛlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃel.la/, [ˈt͡ʃɛlːä]

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

First-declension noun.

• cellārium
• cellārius
• cellula

• “cell”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “cella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cella”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “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

• cellen

cella m or f

1. definite feminine singular of celle

cella f

1. definite singular of celle