Cerealia

cerealia English Etymology From the Classical en la Cereālia. Pronunciation en /sɛɹɪˈeɪlɪə/ RP en /ˌsɛɹɪˈɑːlɪə/ /ˌsɛɹɪˈeɪlɪə/ UK Proper noun en history A festival in Ancient Rome, celebrated on the 10th of April, for the grain goddess Ceres. en 1891 w:Thomas Hardy w:Tess of the d'Urbervilles James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co. London 1 12 The club of Marlott alone lived to uphold the local Cerealia. It had walked for hundreds of years, and it walked still. Translations festival celebrated in honour of Ceres Latin: la Cereālia n-p Further reading en en Roman Empire Latin Alternative forms la Ceriālia Pronunciation Cereālia Etymology 1 A substantivisation of the neuter plural forms of the Classical Latin adjective la Cereālis of, pertaining to, or devoted to Ceres. Proper noun Cereālia<3.pl> n en Cerealia festival celebrated in honour of Ceres Declension Cereālia<3.pl> References Cĕrĕālĭa Cerealis Cĕrĕālĭa 1_Cerealia 291/3 1 Ceriālia 302/1 Etymology 2 Regularly declined forms of la Cereālis of, pertaining to, or devoted to Ceres. Adjective la adjective form Cereālia la Cereālis nom//acc//voc n p la Festivals