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noun, feminine

celda

/ˈθelda/

noun, feminine/ˈθelda/plural: celdas

prison cell; cell

La policía me dijo que mi marido falleció tras ahorcarse con una manta en la celdaThe police told me that my husband died after hanging himself with a sheet in the prison cell

Synonyms: calabozo

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.