cena

dinner, supper, principal meal (anciently taken at noon, afterwards later)
(Medieval Latin, law, historical) gwestva (a duty levied by Welsh kings twice a year upon the free men of their kingdom)

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cēna	cēnae
Genitive	cēnae	cēnārum
Dative	cēnae	cēnīs
Accusative	cēnam	cēnās
Ablative	cēnā	cēnīs
Vocative	cēna	cēnae

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Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: tsinã
- Romanian: cină
Dalmatian:
- caina
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: cena
  - → Sicilian: cena
- Neapolitan: cena
Padanian:
- Friulian: cene
- Ligurian: çenn-a
- Lombard: sèna, zèna, scèna, sina
- Piedmontese: sin-a, sen-a, sèina
- Romansch: tschaina
- Venetian: sena, çéna, ẑena
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: céna (dialectal)
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- >? Aragonese: cena
Ibero-Romance:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: cẽa, cea
  - Galician: cea
  - Portuguese: ceia
- Spanish: cena
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: chena (Logudorese), cena (Campidanese)

Borrowings

→ Catalan: cena
→ French: cène, Cène
→ Occitan: cena
→ Proto-Brythonic: *kinjọ
- Breton: koan
- Cornish: koen
- Welsh: cinio

Verb edit

cēnā

second-person singular present active imperative of cēnō

References edit

“cena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“cena”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
cena 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)
cena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[4], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the main dish: caput cenae (Fin. 2. 8. 25)
- to invite some one to dinner: aliquem vocare, invitare ad cenam
- to accept an invitiation to dinner: promittere (ad cenam) (Off. 3. 14. 58)
- during dinner; at table: inter cenam, inter epulas
- to invite oneself to some one's house for dinner: condicere alicui (ad cenam)
- to welcome some one to one's table: adhibere aliquem cenae or ad cenam, convivio or in convivium
- to set a repast before a person: cenam alicui apponere
“cena”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“cena”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 106

Latvian edit

Latvian Wikipedia has an article on:

cena

Wikipedia ^lv

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Slavic *cěna.

Noun edit

cena f (4th declension)

price

Declension edit

Declension of cena (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	cena	cenas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	cenu	cenas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	cenas	cenu
dative (datīvs)	cenai	cenām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	cenu	cenām
locative (lokatīvs)	cenā	cenās
vocative (vokatīvs)	cena	cenas

Old Polish edit

Alternative forms edit

cana

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *cěna. The shift from cana to cena was a generalization of forms such as w cenie, cenić, etc. First attested in the 15th century.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /t͡sɛːna/
IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /t͡sena/

Noun edit

cena f

price, value
- 1874-1891 [15th century], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności, volume XXIV, page 64:
  Sine omni taxa czany
  [Sine omni taxa cany]

Derived terms edit

verbs

cenić impf

Descendants edit

Polish: cena
Silesian: cena

References edit

Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “cena”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “cena”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
Mańczak, Witold (2017) “cena”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “cena”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “cena”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Old Slovak edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *cěna. First attested in 1473.

Pronunciation edit

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Noun edit

cena f

price (cost required to gain possession of something)
value (meaning of something)

Descendants edit

Slovak: cena

References edit

Majtán, Milan et al., editors (1991–2008), “cena”, in Historický slovník slovenského jazyka [Historical Dictionary of the Slovak Language] (in Slovak), volumes 1–7 (A – Ž), Bratislava: VEDA, →OCLC

Polish edit

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cena

Wikipedia ^pl

Alternative forms edit

czyna (Middle Polish)

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Polish cena.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛ.na/
(Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡se.na/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ɛna
Syllabification: ce‧na

Noun edit

cena f

price (cost required to gain possession of something)
value (meaning of something)
Synonym: wartość
(Middle Polish, mathematics) value; size (size of a number; property of measurability)
Synonym: wielkość

Declension edit

Declension of cena

	singular	plural
nominative	cena	ceny
genitive	ceny	cen
dative	cenie	cenom
accusative	cenę	ceny
instrumental	ceną	cenami
locative	cenie	cenach
vocative	ceno	ceny

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adjectives

adverbs

nouns

cena fabryczna

verbs

cenić impf

verbs

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adverbs

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Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), cena is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 15 times in scientific texts, 25 times in news, 58 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 12 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 114 times, making it the 531st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[1]

References edit

^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “cena”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎^[1] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 42

Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin scaena.

Pronunciation edit

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsẽ.nɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈse.na/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈse.nɐ/

Rhymes: -enɐ, (Brazil) -ẽnɐ
Homophone: sena
Hyphenation: ce‧na

Noun edit

cena f (plural cenas)

scene
stage
Synonym: palco

em cena ― on stage
(Portugal, informal) thing
Synonyms: coisa, (Brazil) negócio

Quotations edit

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cena.

Sassarese edit

Pronunciation edit

(Castelsardo) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛna/^[1]

Noun edit

cena f (plural ceni)

(dialectal) Alternative form of zena (“dinner”)

References edit

^ Mauro Maxia (2012) Fonetica storica del gallurese e delle altre varietà sardocorse (in Sassarese), Editrice Taphros, →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian edit

Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has an article on:

cena

Wikipedia ^sh

Alternative forms edit

cijéna (Ijekavian)

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *cěna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kainā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /t͡sěːna/
Hyphenation: ce‧na

Noun edit

céna f (Cyrillic spelling це́на)

price
value, worth

Declension edit

Declension of cena

	singular	plural
nominative	cena	cene
genitive	cene	cena
dative	ceni	cenama
accusative	cenu	cene
vocative	ceno	cene
locative	ceni	cenama
instrumental	cenom	cenama

Derived terms edit

cijeniti/ceniti

Silesian edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Polish cena.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛna/
Rhymes: -ɛna
Syllabification: ce‧na

Noun edit

cena f

price (cost required to gain possession of something)
- 2018, Waldemar Szymczyk, editor, 9292‎^[8], →ISBN, archived from the original on 12 November 2022, page 22:
  Na fejsbuku to wy mi ceny jajec abo masła niy łobniżycie.
  You all won't lower the price of eggs or butter for me on Facebook.

Slovak edit

Slovak Wikipedia has an article on:

cena

Wikipedia ^sk

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Slovak cena, from Proto-Slavic *cěna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kainā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sena]

Noun edit

cena f (genitive singular ceny, nominative plural ceny, genitive plural cien, declension pattern of žena)

price
value (meaning of something)
reward, prize
(sports) trophy; competition

Declension edit

Declension of cena

	singular	plural
nominative	cena	ceny
genitive	ceny	cien
dative	cene	cenám
accusative	cenu	ceny
locative	cene	cenách
instrumental	cenou	cenami

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Slovene edit

Slovene Wikipedia has an article on:

cena

Wikipedia ^sl

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *cěna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kainā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /t͡sèːna/

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cẹ́na f

price (cost required to gain possession of something)

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The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	céna
gen. sing.	céne
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	céna	céni	céne
genitive (rodȋlnik)	céne	cén	cén
dative (dajȃlnik)	céni	cénama	cénam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	céno	céni	céne
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	céni	cénah	cénah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	céno	cénama	cénami

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Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθena/ [ˈθe.na]
IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈsena/ [ˈse.na]
Audio (Colombia): (file)
Rhymes: -ena
Syllabification: ce‧na

Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Latin cēna, from Proto-Italic *kertsnā, from Proto-Indo-European *kért-s-nh₂ (“portion”), from *ker-, *sker-.

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cena f (plural cenas)

supper, dinner

Derived terms edit

última cena

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cenar

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cena

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

cena

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