nounadjective

el celular

mobile · cellphone

Es un aparato pequeño que sirve para hacer llamadas, enviar mensajes y usar aplicaciones desde cualquier lugar.

Celular has two main uses:

Mobile phone / cell phone — especially common as a noun in Latin America.
- Compré un celular nuevo. — “I bought a new cell phone.”
Cellular; related to cells — an adjective referring to biological cells or, in technical contexts, a cellular network.
- estructura celular — “cellular structure”
- red celular — “cellular network”

In Spain, the noun celular is less common; móvil is generally preferred for “mobile phone.”

As a noun, celular is masculine: el celular. Its plural is los celulares.
As an adjective, it has the same form for masculine and feminine singular nouns:
- tejido celular — “cellular tissue”
- estructura celular — “cellular structure”
The word comes from Latin cellulāris, meaning “relating to a small cell.” It is related to célula , from Latin cellula, “small chamber” or “small cell.”
The ending -ar forms adjectives meaning “related to” or “associated with.”

When celular means “mobile phone,” common synonyms include:

teléfono móvil — widely used in Spain and formal contexts; literally “mobile telephone.”
móvil — the usual everyday term in Spain.
teléfono celular — a more explicit version of celular, common throughout Latin America.

There is no exact antonym for celular. Depending on the context, contrasts may include: