κέλλα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Latin cella.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈcel.la/ → /ˈce.la/

• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈcel.la/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈcel.la/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈce.la/

Noun

κέλλα • (kélla) f (genitive κέλλας); first declension

1. (Koine, Byzantine) cell, room, chamber

Declension

First declension of ἡ κέλλᾰ; τῆς κέλλᾱς (Koine)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κέλλᾰ hē kéllă	τὼ κέλλᾱ tṑ kéllā	αἱ κέλλαι hai kéllai
Genitive	τῆς κέλλᾱς tês kéllās	τοῖν κέλλαιν toîn kéllain	τῶν κελλῶν tôn kellôn
Dative	τῇ κέλλᾳ têi kéllāi	τοῖν κέλλαιν toîn kéllain	ταῖς κέλλαις taîs kéllais
Accusative	τὴν κέλλᾰν tḕn kéllăn	τὼ κέλλᾱ tṑ kéllā	τᾱ̀ς κέλλᾱς tā̀s kéllās
Vocative	κέλλᾰ kéllă	κέλλᾱ kéllā	κέλλαι kéllai

Derived terms

• κελλαρέα (kellaréa)
• κελλαρικός (kellarikós)
• κελλάριος (kellários)
• κελλίον (kellíon)
• κελλιώτης (kelliṓtēs)

Further reading

• κέλλα, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “κέλλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “κέλλα”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 657