Translation
cellar, basement
Word origin
From German Keller, itself from Latin cellarium, a storeroom, built on cella meaning a small chamber. English cellar and cell come from the same Latin root.
- Origin
- German
- Root
- cellarium
- English cognates
- cellar, cell
Examples
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We keep the wine in the cold cellar.
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The staircase leads down to the cellar.
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Under the house there is a big cellar full of old things.
covers both the English cellar and the English basement: Esperanto does not split the room by whether you store wine in it or live in it. Where the distinction matters, compound it - vinkelo for the wine cellar, karbokelo for the coal one. The floor above it is the teretaĝo, and the way down is .
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