celsus

Participle of lost *cellō, from the Proto-Indo-European root *kelH- (“to rise”) (whence collis, columen etc.).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkel.sus/, [ˈkɛɫ̪s̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃel.sus/, [ˈt͡ʃɛlsus]

celsus (feminine celsa, neuter celsum, comparative celsior); first/second-declension adjective

1. lofty, high, tall
2. haughty, arrogant, proud
3. prominent, elevated
4. erect
5. noble

First/second-declension adjective.

• antecellō
• excellō
• praecellō

• → French: celse
• Italian: gelso
• Sardinian: chersa, chessa
• Sicilian: ceusu
• → Tachawit: tkilsa

• “celsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “celsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• celsus 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)
• celsus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “celsus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “celsus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “celsus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 576
• Hamada, Hacene. 2018. On lexical obsolence in Tacawit: The case of six Berber fauna terms. Revue de Traduction & Langues 17. Page 55.