macellum

Latin

Alternative forms

• macellus

Etymology

Diminutive of macula

Noun

macellum n (genitive macellī); second declension

1. provision-market, grocery, grocery store
2. marketplace

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	macellum	macella
Genitive	macellī	macellōrum
Dative	macellō	macellīs
Accusative	macellum	macella
Ablative	macellō	macellīs
Vocative	macellum	macella

Derived terms

• macellārius

Descendants

• Ancient Greek: μάκελλον (mákellon)
• Friulian: macel
• Italian: macello
• Old French: maisel, maisiel, macel
• Romanian: măcel
• Sardinian: macheddu, magheddu, macedhu
• Spanish: macelo
• Venetian: maseło

References

• “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