Zement

German

Alternative forms

• Cement, Ciment, Ziment, Cäment, Zäment (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle High German cē̆ment, byform of more common cī̆ment(e), z-, from Old French ciment, cement, from Latin caementum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tseˈmɛnt/, [t͡seˈmɛnt], [t͡sə-]

• Audio:

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Noun

Zement m (strong, genitive Zements or Zementes, plural Zemente)

1. (construction) cement
2. (anatomy) cementum

Declension

Declension of Zement [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Zement	die	Zemente
genitive	eines	des	Zements, Zementes	der	Zemente
dative	einem	dem	Zement, Zemente1	den	Zementen
accusative	einen	den	Zement	die	Zemente

¹Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

• zementen
• zementieren

Descendants

• → Macedonian: цеме́нт (cemént)
• → Polish: cement
• → Russian: цеме́нт (cemént) (see there for further descendants)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: цѐмент

  Latin script: cèment

Further reading

• “Zement” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Zement on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de