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cellam

cellam is a Latin form of cella, meaning “storeroom; small room; inner shrine of a temple”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 55 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.5: … opus esse putaret non ultro pollicita est? quando id quod imperaretur recusavit? itaque ille M. Cato sapiens cellam penariam rei publicae nostrae, nutricem plebis Romanae Siciliam nominabat. nos vero experti sumus Italico max …

All forms of cella (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.