cellula
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cellula, cellulae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
small/slave's room; lowly apartment/dwelling/hut; porter's lodge; whore's crib;; cell (monk); monastery/daughter house (monastic); case for banner; chapel;; cell (biological); chamber of brain; ovary;
abl. sg.nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
- G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...cultu meo ire extra casam coepi. Necdum liberaveram cellulae limen, cum animadverto Oenotheam cum testo ignis pleno venientem..." - P
Dialogus de Oratoribus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...cuique filius, ex casta parente natus, non in cellula emptae nutricis, sed gremio ac sinu matris educabatur, cuius..."
