Vercellae

Said to be of Celtic (Gaulish or Ligurian) origin, meaning something like "upper settlement," from Proto-Celtic *uɸor- (“upper, over”) + *kella (“settlement”) (from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”), like cella (“cell”)).[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯erˈkel.lae̯/, [u̯ɛrˈkɛlːʲäe̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /verˈt͡ʃel.le/, [verˈt͡ʃɛlːe]

Vercellae f pl (genitive Vercellārum); first declension

1. A town in Gallia Cisalpina situated on the right bank of the Sessites, now Vercelli

First-declension noun, with locative, plural only.

• Vercellēnsis
• Vercellīnus

• “Vercellae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Vercellae”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Vercellae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette