cerna

See also: Cerna, cérna, and černá

French

Verb

cerna

1. third-person singular past historic of cerner

Anagrams

• ancre, ancré, crâne, écran, encra, nacre, rance

Galician

cerne ("heartwood") and sámago ("sapwood")

Alternative forms

• cerne, cerno

Etymology

Perhaps from Suevic, from Proto-Germanic *kernô (“kernel”). Compare Icelandic, Faroese, Old Norse kjarni (“kernel, core”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθɛɾna̝/, (western) /ˈsɛɾna̝/

Noun

cerna f (plural cernas)

1. heartwood

   Synonym: durame

   • 1418, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 112:

     por quatro levuas de çerna que mercastes a Fernan Peres, toneleiro

     because of four loads of heartwood that you bought from Fernán Pérez, barrel-maker

   • 1474, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 74:

     Iten, preçaron duas grades e hun chedeiro e dous temoos de cerna, a parte dos menores em quorenta :XL -? maravedis

     Item, they appraised two grates, a cart's bed and two shafts of heartwood, the part corresponding to the kids, 40 coins

2. (figurative) core, essence, kernel

   Synonyms: miolo, núcleo

3. sap
4. pith (the essential or vital part)

Derived terms

• cernar

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “çerna”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cerna”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cerna”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cerna”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay cerna, possibly from Sanskrit जीर्ण (jīrṇa, “digest”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t͡ʃərˈna]
• Rhymes: -na
• Hyphenation: cêr‧na

Adjective

cêrna

1. digested

Verb

cêrna (active mencerna, passive dicerna)

1. (transitive) to digest
   1. to separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme
   2. to think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend

Derived terms

• cernaan
• cernakan
• pencerna
• pencernaan
• tecerna

 

Related terms

• curna

 

Further reading

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

Italian

Verb

cerna

1. inflection of cernere:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• carne