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
- P
Eunuchus
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...utilitatem ego faciam ut cognoscas meam", quom in cellulam ad te patri' penum omnem congerebam clanculum..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...reducerem. <. . .> [XI] Postquam lustravi oculis totam urbem, in cellulam redii, osculisque tandem bona fide exactis alligo artissimis complexibus..." - G
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..." - M
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..."