cellulam
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;
acc. sg.
Examples
Eunuchus
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...utilitatem ego faciam ut cognoscas meam", quom in cellulam ad te patri' penum omnem congerebam clanculum..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...reducerem. <. . .> [XI] Postquam lustravi oculis totam urbem, in cellulam redii, osculisque tandem bona fide exactis alligo artissimis complexibus..."Vitellius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...erant, zona se aureorum plena circumdedit confugitque in cellulam ianitoris, religato pro foribus cane lectoque et culcita obiectis..."IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...laudarem, si vicisses. an ille animus rediret in cellulam, ferret saginam, magistrum, personam denique sceleris? mea depugnasti causa..."