# cella
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈsɛlə/
* Rhymes: -ɛlə

### Noun

cella (plural cellae)
* (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.

### Anagrams

* eCall

## Aragonese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈθeʎa/
* Rhymes: -eʎa
* Syllabification: ce‧lla

### Noun

cella f
* eyebrow

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin cilia, plural of cilium.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈsɛ.ʎə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈsə.ʎə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈse.ʎa]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

cella f (plural celles)
* eyebrow

#### Derived terms

* cellut

### Further reading

* “cella” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “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.

## French
### Noun

cella f (plural cellas)
* cella

### Further reading

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

## Galician
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈθeʎɐ], (western) [ˈseʎɐ]

### Noun

cella f (plural cellas)
* eyebrow
    Synonym: sobrecella

### References

* 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

## Hungarian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈt͡sɛlːɒ]
* Hyphenation: cel‧la
* Rhymes: -lɒ

### Noun

cella (plural cellák)
* cell (room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates)
    Hyponym: börtöncella
* cell (small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person)
* (architecture) cella (central, enclosed part of an ancient temple)
* (biology, archaic) cell (basic unit of a living organism)
    Synonym: sejt
* cell (each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb)
* (electricity) cell (basic unit of a battery)
* (communication) cell (region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network)
* (statistics) cell (unit in a statistical array where a row and a column intersect)
    Synonym: mező

#### Derived terms

* cellájú
* cellás
* fotocella
* szupercella
* akkumulátorcella
* börtöncella
* cellaajtó
* cellafal
* cellaméret
* cellapotenciál
* cellarendszer
* cellatárs
* memóriacella
* táblázatcella
* üzemanyagcella
* zivatarcella

### References

* ↑ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

### Further reading

* 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 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).

## Italian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt͡ʃɛl.la/
* Rhymes: -ɛlla
* Hyphenation: cèl‧la
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

cella f (plural celle)
* cell

#### Derived terms

* cella solare
* fotocella
* semicella

#### Related terms

* cellaio
* cellario
* celliere
* cellula

### Anagrams

* calle

## Latin
### Etymology

* PIE word
* *ḱelneh₂
From Proto-Italic *kelnā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelneh₂, which consists of Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”) and a suffix *-nā.
Cognates within Latin include clam, color; within Italic, Faliscan cela, Oscan kellaked (“he has stored”); outside Italic, Proto-Germanic *helaną (“to hide, conceal”), Sanskrit शाला (śā́lā, “large tent, building”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkel.la/, [ˈkɛlːʲä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃel.la/, [ˈt͡ʃɛlːä]

### Noun

cella f (genitive cellae); first declension
* a small room, a hut, storeroom
* a barn, granary
* the part of a temple where the image of a god stood; altar, sanctuary, shrine, pantry

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* cellārium
* cellārius
* cellula

#### Descendants

* Albanian: qelizë
* Aramaic:
    Classical Syriac: ܩܠܐ (qellā)
* Basque: gela
* Breton: kell
* Catalan: cel·la
* English: cell
* Greek: κελί (kelí)
* Ancient Greek: κέλλα (kélla)
* Irish: cill
* Italian: cella
* Old French: cele
* Old Galician-Portuguese: cela
** Galician: cela
** Portuguese: cela
* Russian: ке́лья (kélʹja)
* Serbo-Croatian: ćelija
* Spanish: cela, celda, cilla
* Swedish: cell
* Welsh: cell

##### Borrowings

* → Old High German: zella
** Middle High German: zelle, celle
*** Central Franconian:
**** Hunsrik: Zell
**** Luxembourgish: Zell
*** German: Zelle, Celle (obsolete)
**** → Polish: cela

#### Further reading

* 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

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “cella”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 104-5

### Further reading

* “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

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* cellen

### Noun

cella m or f
* definite feminine singular of celle

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

cella f
* definite singular of celle