Cerealia

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UK/sɛɹɪˈeɪlɪə/UK/ˌsɛɹɪˈɑːlɪə/UK/ˌsɛɹɪˈeɪlɪə/

proper noun

A festival in Ancient Rome, celebrated on the 10th of April, for the grain goddess Ceres.

OriginLatin Cereālia →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. historyA festival in Ancient Rome, celebrated on the 10th of April, for the grain goddess Ceres.

    The club of Marlott alone lived to uphold the local Cerealia. It had walked for hundreds of years, and it walked still.

    1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 12

Origin

  1. LatinCereālia
  2. EnglishCerealia

From the Classical Latin Cereālia.

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Translations

Latin Cereālia
  • Cereāliafestival celebrated in honour of Ceres

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APA

Cerealia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Cerealia

MLA

“Cerealia.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Cerealia. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Cerealia,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Cerealia.

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