cellarius

From Latin cellārius.

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɛˈlaː.ri.ʏs/
• Hyphenation: cel‧la‧ri‧us

cellarius m (plural cellarii, no diminutive)

1. (Roman Catholicism) a monk tasked with the economic administration of a monastery

From cella (“storeroom, pantry”) + -ārius.

cellārius m (genitive cellāriī or cellārī); second declension

1. keeper of a storeroom, steward, butler

Second-declension noun.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• cellārium

• → Byzantine Greek: κελλάριος (kellários)
  • → Old East Slavic: кела́рь (kelárĭ)
  • → Old Georgian: კელარი (ḳelari)

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