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macellum

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek μᾰ́κελλον (mắkellon, enclosure, market).[1] Not, contrary to certain suggestions, a diminutive of macula (spot, speck).

Noun

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macellum n (genitive macellī); second declension

  1. provision-market, grocery, grocery store
  2. marketplace

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative macellum macella
genitive macellī macellōrum
dative macellō macellīs
accusative macellum macella
ablative macellō macellīs
vocative macellum macella

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “macellum, -ī”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 375

Further reading

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  • macellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • macellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "macellum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • macellum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • macellum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • macellum”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
  • macellum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin