cella

Learned borrowing from Latin cella. Doublet of cell and hall.

• (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.

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Inherited from Latin cilia, plural of cilium.From a shortened form of Latin supercilium. The root of which comes from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθeʎa/
• IPA^(key): /ˈseʎa/ (Benasquese)
• Syllabification: ce‧lla
• Rhymes: -eʎa

cella f

1. eyebrow

Inherited from Latin cilia, plural of cilium.

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

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cella f (plural celles)

1. eyebrow

• cellut

• “cella”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “cella”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “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

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cella”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cella”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cella”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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 Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• cella in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), 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.^[1]

Cognates within Latin include clam, color; within Italic, Faliscan 𐌂𐌄𐌋𐌀 (cela), Oscan kellaked (“he has stored”); outside Italic, Proto-Germanic *helaną (“to hide, conceal”), Sanskrit शाला (śā́lā, “large tent, building”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɛl.la]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛl.la]

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

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “cell”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →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^[1]
• “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