Definitions for sacellum

sacellum sa·cel·lum

Spelling: [suh-kel-uh m, -sel-]
IPA: /səˈkɛl əm, -ˈsɛl-/

Sacellum is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 304 anagrams from letters in sacellum (acellmsu).

Definitions for sacellum

noun

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

Origin of sacellum

1800-10; Latin: shrine, derivative of sacer holy, sacred; for formation see castellum

Examples for sacellum

This is the portal of its temple, through which alone we can gain access to the sacellum where its aporrheta are concealed.

These two appellations we have already found in the preceding quotations to be capellula and sacellum.

In the early days of Rome many gentes had each their own sacellum for the performance of their religious rites.

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

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

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