sacellum

[ suh-kel-uhm, -sel- ]

noun

, plural sa·cel·la [s, uh, -, kel, -, uh, -, sel, -, uh].

1. a small chapel, as a monument within a church.
2. (in ancient Rome) a shrine open to the sky.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sacellum¹

1800–10; < Latin: shrine, derivative of sacer holy, sacred; for formation castellum

Example Sentences

On the south slope of the latter are remains of a small temple or sacellum described by St Jerome.

From Project Gutenberg

Ad hoc sacellum Ara Cœli a festo nativitatis domini usque ad festum Epiphani� magna populi frequentia invisitur et colitur in presepio Christi nati infantuli simulacrum ex ole� ligno apud montem olivarum Hierosolymis a quodam devoto Minorita sculptum eo animo, ut ad hoc festum celebrandum deportaretur.

From Project Gutenberg

Sacellum, sā-sel′um, n. a little sanctuary, a small uncovered place consecrated to a divinity: a canopied altar-tomb:—pl.

From Project Gutenberg

The gens had its own sacellum or chapel, and its own sacra or religious rites.

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Splendidum etiam illud sacellum westmonasterij, magno sumptu atque magnificentia ab eodem est conditum.

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Related Words

• chapel
• mosque
• parish
• sanctuary
• shrine
• synagogue
• temple