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Cella

store, larder

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Where it lives

De Architectura 35 · 6.07/10k
De agri cultura 9 · 5.75/10k
Satyricon 15 · 4.93/10k
Antoninus Caracallus 1 · 4.9/10k
Helvius Pertinax 1 · 3.85/10k
Carus et Carinus et Numerianus 1 · 3.77/10k
Maximus et Balbinus 1 · 3.18/10k
In C. Verrem 31 · 3.09/10k
C. Caligula 2 · 2.62/10k
Miles Gloriosus 3 · 2.37/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 17 · 2.16/10k
Epigrammata 12 · 2.13/10k

Densest 12 of 52 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. cella — de Vaan

cella 'store, larder' [f. a] (Naev.+) Derivatives: cellarius [adj.] 'of a store-room' (PL), [m.] 'storekeeper' (P1.+), cellula 'small room' (Ter.+). Pit. *keli/ela-. It. cognates: maybe Fal. cela [nom.sg.] PN (cf. Giacomelli 1963: 239f); maybe O. kellaked [3s.pf ] 'he has stored(?)', denom. to *fe//a-. PIE *lcel- 'hiding1? IE cognates: Skt. sala- 'large tent, building'? -cello In theory, cella may go back to *cela … — [de Vaan, s.v. cella, p. 118]

2. cella — Lewis & Short

cella, ae, f.cf. celo, oc-cul-o, clam, v. Varr. L. L. 5, 33, 45; Fest. p. 50,

I a storeroom, chamber.

I In agricult. lang., a place for depositing grain or fruits, or for the abode of animals, a granary, stall, etc.: olearia, vinaria, penaria, etc., Cato, R. R. 3, 2; Varr. R. R. 1, 11, 2; Col. 1, 6, 9; 12, 18, 3; Cic. Sen. 16, 56; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 2, § 5; 2, 3, 87, § 200 sq. al.; cf. id. Pis. 27, 67; Verg. G. 2, 96; Hor. C. 1, 37, 6; id. S. 2, 8, 46; Vitr. 6, 9: columbarum, dovecotes, Col. 8, 8, 3: anserum, id. 8, 14, 9.— Also of the cells of bees, Verg. G. 4, 164; id. A. 1, 433; Plin. 11, 11, 10, § 26.—Hence, dare, emere, imperare aliquid in cellam, to furnish, purchase, procure the things necessary for a house, for the kitchen, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 87, § 201 sq.; id. Div. in Caecil. 10, 30. —Facetiously: cella promptuaria = carcer, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 4; cf. id. ib. 1, 1, 3: reliqui in ventre cellae uni locum, Plaut. Curc. 3, 17.-

II Transf., of the small, simple dwelling apartments of men, a chamber, closet, cabinet, hut, cot, etc., Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 13; esp. of servants, Cato, R. R. 14: ostiarii, the porter's lodge, Vitr. 6, 10; Petr. 29, 1; 77, 4; and of slaves, Cic. Phil. 2, 27, 67; Hor. S. 1, 8, 8 al.—Of a poor man's garret, Mart. 7, 20, 21; 8, 14, 5: cella pauperis, a chamber for self-denial, etc., Sen. Ep. 18, 7; 100, 6; cf. Mart. 3, 48.—

B The part of a temple in which the image of a god stood, the chapel, Vitr. 3, 1; 4, 1; Cic. Phil. 3, 12, 30; Liv. 5, 50, 6; 6, 29, 9 al.—

C An apartment in a bathing-house, Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 11; Pall. 1, 40, 4; Veg. 2, 6, 3.—

D A room in a brothel, Petr. 8, 4; Juv. 6, 122; 6, 128: inscripta, Mart. 11, 45, 1.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. cella (scan pp. 118-119; entry #245). Root candidates: *lcel-, *kella-, *kel-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. cella (scan p. 135; entry #1998).

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