ce
Translingual edit
Symbol edit
ce
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -iː
- Homophones: C, sea, see
Noun edit
ce (plural ces)
- Alternative form of cee (“the letter C”)
- 2003, David Sacks, The Alphabet: Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z, page 89:
- [T]hat spelling, but not the pronunciation, supplies our own name for the letter: “ce” or “cee.”
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ce f (plural ces)
- The name of the Latin-script letter C.
Derived terms edit
Central Nahuatl edit
< 0 | 1 | 2 > |
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Cardinal : ce Ordinal : inic ce | ||
Etymology edit
Cognate to Classical Nahuatl ce
Numeral edit
ce
- one.
Classical Nahuatl edit
10 | ||||
1 | 2 → | 10 → | ||
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Cardinal: ce Ordinal: ic ce Adverbial: ceppa Distributive: cēcen, cehcen |
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
Numeral edit
ce
- (it is) one in number.
- 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca vn vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 250r:
- ¶Vno o vna.Ce.
- ¶ One. Ce.
- 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 118v. col. 1:
- ¶ Vno o vna. Ce.
- ¶ One. Ce.
- Idem, f. 15r. col. 1.
- C E.vno o vna, / vel,centetl.
- C E. one. also centetl.
- C E.vno o vna, / vel,centetl.
Usage notes edit
- The combing form of ce is cen- (or cem- before m and p).
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Alonso de Molina (1571) Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, Editorial Porrúa, pages 118v, 15r
Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl edit
< 0 | 1 | 2 > |
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Cardinal : ce Ordinal : achtohui | ||
Etymology edit
Cognate to Classical Nahuatl ce
Numeral edit
ce
- one.
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Middle French, from Old French cel, cil, from Vulgar Latin *ecce ille. See also celui, derived from the oblique cases of the same.
The inflected forms continue Old French cest, cist, from Vulgar Latin *ecce iste.
Determiner edit
ce m (before a vowel or mute h cet, feminine cette, plural ces)
Usage notes edit
To distinguish between the this and that senses, one may use the particles -ci and -là, respectively. See also celui-ci and celui-là, or ceci and cela.
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Old French ço, from Late Latin ecce hoc.
Alternative forms edit
Pronoun edit
ce m or f (plural ce)
- (subject of être, with predicative adjectives or relative clauses, singular only) it, this, that (see § Usage notes, below)
- C’est beau ! ― It is beautiful!
- est-ce que...? ― forms yes–no questions (literally, “is it that...?”)
- ce dont je parlais ― that which I was speaking of
- C’eût été avec plaisir, mais... ― It would have been with pleasure, but...
- C’eût été dommage... ― It would have been a pity...
- (subject of être, with predicate nouns) he, she, it, this, that
- C’est un/une célébrité. ― He/she is a celebrity.
- Ce sont des célébrités. ― These are celebrities.
- Ce sont des gens bien. ― These are good people.
- 1897, Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac :
- C'est un roc ! ... c'est un pic ! ... c'est un cap ! Que dis-je, c'est un cap ? ... C'est une péninsule !
- It's a rock! ... it's a peak! ... it's a cape! What am I saying, a cape? ... It's a peninsula!
- C'est un roc ! ... c'est un pic ! ... c'est un cap ! Que dis-je, c'est un cap ? ... C'est une péninsule !
- (archaic, subject of verbs other than être) it, this, that
- ce semble ― it seems
- ce peuvent être... ― these may be...
- 1866, Guérineau de Boisvillette, Ce qu'il a laissé![2], page 56:
- [...] ce paraissent être encore là des points à noter [...]
- […] these seem to be more points worth noting […]
Usage notes edit
(1): To convey the plural with a predicative adjective, one must use ils m or elles f (“they”):
- Ils/Elles sont beaux/belles ! ― They are beautiful!
And to convey the plural with a relative clause, one must use ceux m or celles f (plural forms of celui m and celle f):
- ceux/celles que... ― those which...
- ceux/celles qui... ― those who/that...
- ceux/celles dont je parlais... ― those which I was speaking of...
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) |
Accusative (direct complement) |
Dative (indirect complement) |
Disjunctive (tonic) |
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Singular | First | — | je, j’ | me, m’ | moi | |
Second | — | tu | te, t’ | toi | ||
Third | Masculine | il | le, l’ | lui | lui | |
Feminine | elle | la, l’ | elle | |||
Gender neutral5 | iel | lea | ellui | |||
Indeterminate | on1 | — | — | — | ||
Reflexive | — | se, s’4 | soi4 | |||
Plural | First | — | nous | nous | nous | |
Second | — | vous2 | vous2,3 | vous2 | ||
Third | Masculine | ils3 | les | leur | eux | |
Feminine | elles | elles | ||||
Gender neutral5 | iels | elleux |
- 1 Also used as the first person plural.
- 2 Also used as the polite singular form.
- 3 Also used when a group has both men and women.
- 4 Also used as third person plural reflexive.
- 5 Colloquial, and not in popular use.
References edit
Further reading edit
- “ce”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Friulian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin quid. Compare Italian che, Venetian ché, Romanian ce.
Pronoun edit
ce
See also edit
Gun edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Determiner edit
cé (Benin)
- my (first-person singular possessive adjective)
See also edit
Gungbe personal pronouns | ||||||
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Number | Person | Emphatic Pronoun | Subject Pronoun | Object Pronoun | Possessive Determiner | |
Singular | First | nyɛ́, yẹ́n | ùn, n | mi | cé, ṣié | |
Second | jɛ̀, jẹ̀, yẹ̀, hiẹ̀ | à | wè | tòwè | ||
Third | éɔ̀, úɔ̀, éwọ̀ | é | è | étɔ̀n, étọ̀n | ||
Plural | First | mílɛ́, mílẹ́ | mí | mítɔ̀n, mítọ̀n | ||
Second | mìlɛ́, mìlẹ́ | mì | mìtɔ̀n, mìtọ̀n | |||
Third | yélɛ́, yélẹ́ | yé | yétɔ̀n, yétọ̀n |
Ido edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ce (plural ce-i)
- The name of the Latin script letter C/c.
See also edit
Indonesian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cé
- The name of the Latin-script letter C/c.
Synonyms edit
- si (Standard Malay)
See also edit
- (Latin-script letter names) huruf; a, be, ce, de, e, ef, ge, ha, i, je, ka, el, em, en, o, pe, ki, er, es, te, u, ve, we, eks, ye, zet
Further reading edit
- “ce” 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 edit
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
ce
- Alternative form of ci (“us”)
Usage notes edit
See also edit
Number | Person | Gender | Nominative | Reflexive | Accusative | Dative | Conjunctive | Disjunctive | Locative | Partitive |
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Singular | first | — | io | mi, m', -mi | me | me | — | |||
second | — | tu | ti, t', -ti | te | te | |||||
third | m | lui | si2, s', -si | lo, l', -lo | gli, -gli | glie, se2 | lui, sé | ci, c', vi, v' (formal) |
ne, n' | |
f | lei, Lei1 | la, La1, l', L'1, -la, -La1 | le3, Le1, -le3, -Le1 | lei, Lei1, sé | ||||||
Plural | first | — | noi | ci, c', -ci | ce | noi | — | |||
second | — | voi, Voi4 | vi, Vi4, v', V'4, -vi, -Vi4 | ve | voi, Voi4 | |||||
third | m | loro, Loro1 | si, s', -si | li, Li1, -li, -Li1 | gli, -gli, loro (formal), Loro1 |
glie, se | loro, Loro1, sé | ci, c', vi, v' (formal) |
ne, n' | |
f | le, Le1, -le, -Le1 | |||||||||
1 | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead. | |||||||||
2 | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | |||||||||
3 | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. | |||||||||
4 | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). |
Adverb edit
ce
Italiot Greek edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek καί (kaí).
Conjunction edit
ce
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cē f (indeclinable)
- The name of the letter C.
Coordinate terms edit
- (Latin-script letter names) littera; ā, bē, cē, dē, ē, ef, gē, hā / *acca, ī, kā, el, em, en, ō, pē, kū, er, es, tē, ū, ix / īx / ex, ȳ / ī graeca / ȳpsīlon, zēta
References edit
- “ce”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ce”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ce in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Arthur E. Gordon, The Letter Names of the Latin Alphabet (University of California Press, 1973; volume 9 of University of California Publications: Classical Studies), part III: “Summary of the Ancient Evidence”, page 32: "Clearly there is no question or doubt about the names of the vowels A, E, I, O, U. They are simply long A, long E, etc. (ā, ē, ī, ō, ū). Nor is there any uncertainty with respect to the six mutes B, C, D, G, P, T. Their names are bē, cē, dē, gē, pē, tē (each with a long E). Or about H, K, and Q: they are hā, kā, kū—each, again, with a long vowel sound."
Mandarin edit
Romanization edit
ce
- Nonstandard spelling of cè.
- Nonstandard spelling of cê̄.
Usage notes edit
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Mapudungun edit
Alternative forms edit
- che (Unified Alphabet)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ce (Raguileo spelling)
See also edit
References edit
- Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old English sǣ.
Noun edit
ce
- Alternative form of see (“sea”)
Descendants edit
- English: sea
Etymology 2 edit
From Old French sei.
Noun edit
ce
- Alternative form of see (“see”)
Descendants edit
- English: see
Middle French edit
Adjective edit
ce m (feminine singular ceste, masculine and feminine plural ces, masculine singular before a vowel cest)
- this (the one in question)
- 1571, Pedro Díaz, Dallier, Nouueaux advertissemens trescertains venus du paÿs des Indes Meridionales […] page 5
- Mais considerant que les Chrestiens nouvellement faits en ce pays, estoient en si grand nombre que nous ne les pouvions visiter
- But considering that the newly made Christians in this country were so numerous that we couldn't visit all of them
- 1571, Pedro Díaz, Dallier, Nouueaux advertissemens trescertains venus du paÿs des Indes Meridionales […] page 5
Neapolitan edit
Etymology edit
Akin to Italian ci; see there for more.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
ce (adverbial)
- there (at a place)
Occitan edit
Noun edit
ce f (plural ces)
- cee (the letter c)
Old Irish edit
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
ce
- Alternative form of cía
Conjunction edit
ce
- Alternative form of cía
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10c21
- Ba torad sa⟨í⟩thir dúun in chrud so ce du·melmis cech túari et ce du·gnemmis a ndu·gníat ar céli, act ní bad nertad na mbráithre et frescsiu fochricce as móo.
- It would be a fruit of our labor in this way if we consumed every food and if we did what our fellows do, but it would not be a strengthening of the brothers and a hope of a greater reward.
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 34a4
- ɔrabad cech bráthair post alium .i. is huisse ce ru·samaltar fri Críst
- so that each brother should be after the other, i.e. it is right that he be compared to Christ
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10c21
Pochutec edit
Etymology edit
C.f. Classical Nahuatl cē.
Pronunciation edit
Numeral edit
ce
References edit
- Boas, Franz (1917 July) “El Dialecto mexicano de Pochutla, Oaxaca”, in International Journal of American Linguistics (in Spanish), volume 1, number 1, , →JSTOR, pages 9–44
- Knab, Tim (1980 July) “When is a language really dead: The case of Pochutec”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 46, number 3, , →JSTOR, pages 230–233
Romanian edit
Alternative forms edit
- че (ce) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin quid, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷid, compare *kʷis.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
ce
Related terms edit
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθe/ [ˈθe]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈse/ [ˈse]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -e
- Syllabification: ce
- Homophones: se, (Latin America) sé
Noun edit
ce f (plural ces)
- The name of the Latin-script letter C.
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “ce”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Spanish ce, the Spanish name of the letter C/c.
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈse/, [ˈsɛ]
- Rhymes: -e
Noun edit
ce (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒ)
- (historical) The name of the Latin-script letter C/c, in the Abecedario.
- Synonym: (in the Filipino alphabet) si
Tarantino edit
Pronoun edit
ce (relative)
Conjunction edit
ce
Tocharian B edit
Etymology edit
Clipping of kuce, used colloquially and informally.
Pronoun edit
ce
Turkish edit
Noun edit
ce
- The name of the Latin-script letter C.
See also edit
Welsh edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ce f (plural ceau)
- The name of the Latin-script letter K.
Mutation edit
This word cannot be mutated.
See also edit
Zarma edit
Etymology edit
Cognate with Koyraboro Senni cee (“foot”).
Noun edit
ce