Marcellus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Marcellus. Doublet of Marcel.

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɛləs

Proper noun

Marcellus

A male given name from Latin.
A village in Michigan.
A town and village in New York.

Usage notes

Mainly historical usage in English, pertaining to Rome and early Christian saints.

Related terms

Marcel, Marcus, Mark, Martin
female given names: Marcella, Marcelle

Translations

male given name

Basque: Martzelo m
Breton: Marc'hell m
Catalan: Marcel (ca) m
Franco-Provençal: Mar'i
French: Marcel (fr)
Galician: Marcelo (gl) m
Hungarian: Marcell (hu) sg
Irish: Marcellus m
Italian: Marcello (it)
Occitan: Marcèl m, Marcèu m, Marçau m
Polish: Marcel (pl) m
Portuguese: Marcelo (pt) m
Sicilian: Marcellu m
Spanish: Marcelo (es)
Vietnamese: Marcellô

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of Mārculus, which is a diminutive of Mārcus.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [maːrˈkɛl.lʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [marˈt͡ʃɛl.lus]

Proper noun

Mārcellus m (genitive Mārcellī, feminine Mārcella); second declension

A name of a plebeian Roman gens.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Mārcellus	Mārcellī
genitive	Mārcellī	Mārcellōrum
dative	Mārcellō	Mārcellīs
accusative	Mārcellum	Mārcellōs
ablative	Mārcellō	Mārcellīs
vocative	Mārcelle	Mārcellī

Related terms

Mārcella
Mārcellia
Mārcelliānus
Mārcellīnus

Descendants

Catalan: Marcel
French: Marcel
Italian: Marcello
Portuguese: Marcelo
Romanian: Marcel
Spanish: Marcelo
→ Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌺𐌰𐌹𐌻𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍃 (markaillius)

References

“Marcellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Marcellus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.