cera
Asturian edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
cera f (plural ceres)
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Central) [ˈsɛ.ɾə]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [ˈsə.ɾə]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈse.ɾa]
- Rhymes: -eɾa
Noun edit
cera f (plural ceres)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “cera” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Fala edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese cera (“wax”), from Latin cēra.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cera f (plural ceras)
References edit
Galician edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese cera, from Latin cēra.
Noun edit
cera f (plural ceras)
Further reading edit
- “cera” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
- “cera” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “cera” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
Gallurese edit
Alternative forms edit
- zera (Aggius)
Etymology edit
Inherited from Classical Latin cēra, probably a borrowing from a substrate language.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cera f (plural ceri)
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Italian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cera f (plural cere)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- cera in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- cera in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- cera in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- cera in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology 1 edit
A foreign loan from a substrate language, cognate with Ancient Greek κηρός (kērós) and Albanian qiri,[1] and possibly also with Lithuanian korys and Latvian kāre.[2]
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkeː.ra/, [ˈkeːrä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.ra/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːrä]
Noun edit
cēra f (genitive cērae); first declension
- wax, beeswax, honeycomb
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.747–748:
- audit in exēsa strīdōrem exāminis ulmō,
aspicit et cērās dissimulatque senex- [Silenus] hears the buzzing of a swarm in a hollowed-out elm tree,
and the old man can see the honeycombs, yet he dissimulates [pretends as if he has found nothing].
(Ovid's word play relates the ‘‘exesus’’ – the tree's ‘‘having been consumed’’ – with the ‘‘examen’’ or swarm, which Silenus mistakenly assumes are bees; instead, moments later when he looks inside the tree he is attacked by hornets.)
- [Silenus] hears the buzzing of a swarm in a hollowed-out elm tree,
- audit in exēsa strīdōrem exāminis ulmō,
- a wax seal
- a wax image
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cēra | cērae |
Genitive | cērae | cērārum |
Dative | cērae | cērīs |
Accusative | cēram | cērās |
Ablative | cērā | cērīs |
Vocative | cēra | cērae |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Aromanian: tsearã, tsiare
- Asturian: cera
- → Proto-Brythonic: *kuɨr
- Catalan: cera
- Dalmatian: caira
- English: cere
- French: cire
- Friulian: cere
- Galician: cera
- → Old Irish: céir
- Italian: cera
- Norman: chithe (Jersey)
- Occitan: cera
- Piedmontese: sira
- Portuguese: cera
- Romanian: ceară
- Romansch: tschaira, tschera, tscheira
- Sardinian: chera, cera
- Sicilian: cira
- Spanish: cera
- Venetian: sera, siera, çera, zhera
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkeː.raː/, [ˈkeːräː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.ra/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːrä]
Verb edit
cērā
References edit
- “cera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cera in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- cera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “cera”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “cera”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- ^ Mallory, Douglas, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture
- ^ Chantraine, Pierre (1968–1980) “κηρός”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque (in French), Paris: Klincksieck, pages 526–527
Occitan edit
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Audio (Béarn) (file)
Noun edit
cera f (plural ceras)
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Italian cera, from Latin cēra.
Noun edit
cera f
- complexion (appearance of the skin on the face)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
cera f
- (sewing) darn (filling in a hole in the fabric created by rubbing, tearing, or tearing out a piece of it by using interlaced stitch)
Declension edit
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese cera (“wax”), from Latin cēra.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -eɾɐ
- Hyphenation: ce‧ra
Noun edit
cera f (plural ceras)
Related terms edit
Sassarese edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cera f (plural ceri)
References edit
Silesian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Czech céra, dcera.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cera f
References edit
Further reading edit
- cera in silling.org
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin cēra (“wax”).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθeɾa/ [ˈθe.ɾa]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈseɾa/ [ˈse.ɾa]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -eɾa
- Syllabification: ce‧ra
Noun edit
cera f (plural ceras)
- wax
- (Spain) crayon
- Synonyms: (Colombia, Venezuela, Canary Islands) creyón, (Argentina, Guatemala, Honduras, Uruguay) crayón, (Cuba, Mexico, Peru) crayola, (Spain) lápiz de cera
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “cera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014