macellum
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek μᾰ́κελλον (mắkellon, “enclosure, market”).[1] Not, contrary to certain suggestions, a diminutive of macula (“spot, speck”).
Noun
macellum n (genitive macellī); second declension
Declension
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
Descendants
References
- ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “macellum, -ī”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 375
Further reading
- “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