Noun: celda
Gender: f
Hyphenation: cel‧da
| Singular f | celda |
| Plural f | celdas |
Sample Sentences
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La policía me dijo que mi marido falleció tras ahorcarse con una manta en la celda (The police told me that my husband died after hanging himself with a sheet in the prison cell) [2015 November 23, “Interior alertó del riesgo de suicidio en la celda donde murió un turista”, in El País:]
Nouns inflected like celda
enlatadora,
gencianilla,
paletada,
interneurona,
palestra,
quinacridona,
uridina,
bacinilla,
sopaipilla,
histerectomía,
desaveniencia,
baicaleína,
mesanina,
delicatessen,
hipertrigliceridemia,
teleasistencia,
sequía,
serifa,
seroja,
sesera, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cella, with the -ld- arising from the effort of pronouncing a double Latin -ll- at the time (cf. rebelde). Compare the inherited doublet cilla, from Old Spanish ciella. See: Latin Nouns '
cella'.
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