Where does “cellar” come from?
Cellar comes from English saler, from French salière, from Latin cēlāre meaning to hide, combined with the Latin agent suffix -ārius, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ḱel-.
cellar (English): An enclosed underground space, often under a...
Definitions
- An enclosed underground space, often under a...
Ancestry of “cellar”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | seler | — |
| 2 | Old French | celier | cellar |
| 3 | Latin | cellārium | storeroom, larder, cellar, pantry |
| 4 | Latin | -ārium | used primarily to form nouns of purpose from other nouns, such as places where things are kept or objects used for a particular end |
| 5 | Latin | -um | nominative neuter singular of -us; accusative... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *-om | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | *-oHom | — |