cella.
storeroom, (wine) cellar, larder; temple chamber, sanctuary; room, garret; pen; cell; monastery;
Meaning & usage
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
Where this word comes from
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”), although the specific formation is uncertain. De Vaan posits as possible Proto-Italic forms *kēli- and *kēlā-. He suggests that the latter may have yielded cella by the Latin littera rule, whereby a long vowel followed by a single consonant was replaced by a short vowel followed by a geminate consonant. He also considers a diminutive formation *kēl-elā- > *kellā-, or, if formed directly from *ḱel-, *kel-ilā; other possible preforms are *kel-nā-, *kel-sā-, and *kel-dā-. Cognates within Latin include clam, color, cēlō; within Italic, Faliscan 𐌂𐌄𐌋𐌀 (cela), Oscan kellaked (“he has stored”); outside Italic, Proto-Germanic *helaną (“to hide, conceal”), Sanskrit शाला (śā́lā, “large tent, building”).
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