Cella, cellæ, dicta celando, authore Seruio: quod in ea celentur que esse volumus occulta. A cellar to keepe any thing: also where one is priuily washed: a priuy place in the temple: a channcell: a secrete chamber.Cellam atque horreum Campani agri, Cicero Capuam appellauit. Cella vini & olei. Paulus. Angustæ cellæ. Horat. Olearia cella.Cic.A cellar for oyle.Penaria cella.Cic.A garner or storehouse.Promptuariam cellam vocauit Plautus carcerern, ex qua promerentur vincti.A prison.Vinaria cella.Cic.A wine cellar.In cellam dare.Cic. In cellam emere frumentum. Cic.In cellam imperare frumentum.Cic.In cellam sumere frumentum.Cic. Cella.Cic.A chamber.Strati in cellis lecti.Cic. Cella, Pars templi erat sacratior, in quam ingredi fas non erat.Liu.A channsell. Cellas. Abusiuè fauotum cauernas vocauit Virgilius. A hony combe.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
cella, ae, f. [cf. celo, oc-cul-o, clam, v. Varr. L. L. 5, 33, 45; Fest. p. 50], a storeroom, chamber.I. In agricult. lang., a place for depositing grain or fruits, or for the abode of animals, a granary, stall, etc.: olearia, vinaria, penaria, etc., Cato, R. R. 3, 2; Varr. R. R. 1, 11, 2; Col. 1, 6, 9; 12, 18, 3; Cic. Sen. 16, 56; id. Verr. 2, 2, 2, 5; 2, 3, 87, 200 sq. al.; cf. id. Pis. 27, 67; Verg. G. 2, 96; Hor. C. 1, 37, 6; id. S. 2, 8, 46; Vitr. 6, 9: columbarum,
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, Col. 8, 8, 3: anserum, id. 8, 14, 9.— Also of the cells of bees, Verg. G. 4, 164; id. A. 1, 433; Plin. 11, 11, 10, 26.—Hence, dare, emere, imperare aliquid in cellam, to furnish, purchase, procure the things necessary for a house, for the kitchen, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 87, 201 sq.; id. Div. in Caecil. 10, 30. —Facetiously: cella promptuaria = carcer, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 4; cf. id. ib. 1, 1, 3: reliqui in ventre cellae uni locum, Plaut. Curc. 3, 17.- II.Transf., of the small, simple dwelling apartments of men, a chamber, closet, cabinet, hut, cot, etc., Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 13; esp. of servants, Cato, R. R. 14: ostiarii, the porter's lodge, Vitr. 6, 10; Petr. 29, 1; 77, 4; and of slaves, Cic. Phil. 2, 27, 67; Hor. S. 1, 8, 8 al.—Of a poor man's garret, Mart. 7, 20, 21; 8, 14, 5: cella pauperis, a chamber for self-denial, etc., Sen. Ep. 18, 7; 100, 6; cf. Mart. 3, 48.—B.The part of a temple in which the image of a god stood, the chapel, Vitr. 3, 1; 4, 1; Cic. Phil. 3, 12, 30; Liv. 5, 50, 6; 6, 29, 9 al.—C.An apartment in a bathing-house, Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 11; Pall. 1, 40, 4; Veg. 2, 6, 3.—D.A room in a brothel, Petr. 8, 4; Juv. 6, 122; 6, 128: inscripta, Mart. 11, 45, 1.