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sacella

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sa⋅cel⋅lum

[suh-kel-uhm, -sel-]
–noun, plural -cel⋅la [-kel-uh, -sel-uh] .
1. a small chapel, as a monument within a church.
2. (in ancient Rome) a shrine open to the sky.

Origin:
1800–10; < L: shrine, deriv. of sacer holy, sacred; for formation see castellum
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