ceri

See also: c'eri, çeri, Ceri, and Çeri

Catalan

Chemical element
Ce
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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈsɛ.ɾi]

Etymology 1

Noun

ceri m (uncountable)

1. cerium

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin cēreus. Doublet of ciri, a semilearned borrowing.

Adjective

ceri (feminine cèria, masculine plural ceris, feminine plural cèries)

1. waxen

Related terms

• cera

Further reading

• “ceri” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ceri”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “ceri” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ceri” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Indonesian

Etymology

From English cherry, from Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse (“cherry”), both ultimately from Vulgar Latin ceresia, from Late Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin. Mostly replaced both kersen and kers.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛri]
• Hyphenation: cè‧ri

Noun

ceri (first-person possessive ceriku, second-person possessive cerimu, third-person possessive cerinya)

1. cherry:
   1. a small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
   2. Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
   3. The wood of a cherry tree.

Synonyms

• kers, kersen
• seri

Further reading

• “ceri” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.ri/
• Rhymes: -eri
• Hyphenation: cé‧ri

Noun

ceri m

1. plural of cero

Anagrams

• crei

Latvian

Verb

ceri

1. inflection of cerēt:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tʃerʲ]

Verb

ceri

1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of cere

Noun

ceri f

1. indefinite genitive/dative singular of ceară

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛrɪ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkeːri/, /ˈkɛri/

Etymology 1

Related to Old Irish cáer (“berry”).

Noun

ceri f (collective, singulative cerïen)

1. rowan trees

   Synonym: criafol

2. hips, especially of dogrose or briar

   Synonym: egroes

3. medlar trees

   Synonym: meryswydd

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• cari (colloquial)

Verb

ceri

1. (literary) second-person singular present indicative/future of caru

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
ceri	geri	ngheri	cheri
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “ceri”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies