The corpus record — Latin

sacellum

sacellum · n

a little sanctuary

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 36.9/10k
Timoleon 1 · 12.08/10k
De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 5 · 6.64/10k
Themistocles 1 · 5.84/10k
Contra Symmachum 5 · 4.16/10k
Maximus et Balbinus 1 · 3.18/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Maximini Duo 1 · 1.84/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 3 · 1.72/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k

Densest 12 of 35 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

săcellum — Lewis & Short

săcellum, i, n.dim.sacrum,

I a little sanctuary, i. e. a small uncovered place consecrated to a divinity; a chapel: sacellum est locus parvus deo sacratus cum āra, Trebatius ap. Gell. 6, 12, 5: sacella dicuntur loca diis sacrata sine tecto, Fest. p. 318, and Paul. ex Fest. p. 319 Müll.; Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 37: sunt loca publica urbis, sunt sacella, Cic. Agr. 2, 14, 36; cf. Liv. 40, 51 fin.: exaugurare fana sacellaque statuit, id. 1, 55: Caeciliam Metelli exisse in quoddam sacellum ominis capiendi causā, Cic. Div. 1, 46, 104: et quo—sed faciles Nymphae risere—sacello, Verg. E. 3, 9 Forbig. ad loc.: Atheniensium muros ex sacellis sepulchrisque constitisse, Nep. Them. 6, 6: flore sacella tego, Prop. 4 (5), 3, 57. incultum, id. 2, 19, 13: Quirini, Fest. s. v. Quirinalis porta, p. 254 Müll.; cf. Liv. 5, 40: Naeniae deae, Fest. p. 163 Müll.; Tac. H. 3, 74; Ov. F. 1, 275; Juv. 13, 232.

In the wild

sacella Livy, Ab urbe condita 3bis.40.51.8
sacellum Cicero, De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 30
sacello Appendix Vergiliana, Appendix Vergiliana 3.8
sacello Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.5.40.8
sacellis Prudentius, Contra Symmachum 2.1.345
sacellaque Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 p78

6 of 66 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.