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Yes. The word cella is a Scrabble US word. The word cella is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word cella is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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5-letter words (1 found)

CELLA,

4-letter words (5 found)

ALEC,CALL,CELL,LACE,LEAL,

3-letter words (8 found)

ACE,ALE,ALL,CAL,CEL,ELL,LAC,LEA,

2-letter words (5 found)

AE,AL,EA,EL,LA,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 20 words from cella according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of cella

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Definitions and meaning of cella

cella

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cella. Doublet of cell.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsɛlə/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlə

Noun

cella (plural cellae)

  1. (architecture) The central, enclosed part of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticos. [from 17th c.]

Aragonese

Etymology

From a shortened form of Latin supercilium.

Noun

cella f

  1. eyebrow

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cilia, plural of cilium.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [ˈsɛ.ʎə]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [ˈsə.ʎə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈse.ʎa]

Noun

cella f (plural celles)

  1. eyebrow

Derived terms

  • cellut

Further reading

  • “cella” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “cella”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “cella” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “cella” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Noun

cella f (plural cellas)

  1. cella

Further reading

  • “cella”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?] (compare Portuguese celha), from Latin cilia (compare Spanish ceja), from cilium.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈθeʎɐ], (western) [ˈseʎɐ]

Noun

cella f (plural cellas)

  1. eyebrow
    Synonym: sobrecella

References

  • “cella” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “cella” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “cella” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin cella (“chamber, small room”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡sɛlːɒ]
  • Hyphenation: cel‧la
  • Rhymes: -lɒ

Noun

cella (plural cellák)

  1. cell (room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates)
    Hyponym: börtöncella
  2. cell (small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person)
  3. (architecture) cella (central, enclosed part of an ancient temple)
  4. (biology, archaic) cell (basic unit of a living organism)
    Synonym: sejt
  5. cell (each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb)
  6. (electricity) cell (basic unit of a battery)
  7. (communication) cell (region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network)
  8. (statistics) cell (unit in a statistical array where a row and a column intersect)
    Synonym: mező

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

  • cella in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • cella in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cella, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelnā.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛl.la/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlla
  • Hyphenation: cèl‧la

Noun

cella f (plural celle)

  1. cell

Derived terms

  • cella solare
  • fotocella
  • semicella

Related terms

  • cellaio
  • cellario
  • celliere
  • cellula

Anagrams

  • calle

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kelnā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelneh₂, which consists of Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”) and a suffix -nā.

Cognates include Latin clam, Latin color, Proto-Germanic *helaną.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkel.la/, [ˈkɛlːʲä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃel.la/, [ˈt͡ʃɛlːä]

Noun

cella f (genitive cellae); first declension

  1. a small room, a hut, storeroom
  2. a barn, granary
  3. the part of a temple where the image of a god stood; altar, sanctuary, shrine, pantry

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • cellārium
  • cellārius
  • cellula

Descendants

Further reading

  • “cell”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “cella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

References

  • “cella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cella 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)
  • cella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “cella”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎[1]
  • “cella”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “cella”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

  • cellen

Noun

cella m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of celle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

cella f

  1. definite singular of celle

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