cerne
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French [Term?], inherited from Latin circinus (“pair of compasses”); compare Romanian cearcăn.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cerne m (plural cernes)
- dark bluish coloration around the eyes, periorbital dark circle
- dark circle around a lesion
- tree ring
Usage notes edit
This noun is often incorrectly considered as feminine.
Related terms edit
Verb edit
cerne
- inflection of cerner:
Further reading edit
- “cerne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Galician edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cerne m (plural cernes)
- Nonstandard form of cerna (“heartwood; core, kernel”).
Adjective edit
cerne m or f (plural cernes)
- Nonstandard form of cerno (“steady, firm, upright; hard”).
References edit
- “çerna” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “çerno” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “cerne” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “cerne” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
Italian edit
Verb edit
cerne
Latin edit
Verb edit
cerne
Portuguese edit
Etymology 1 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cerne m (plural cernes)
- heartwood (wood nearer the heart of a stem)
- Synonym: durame
- kernel (core or essence of an object or system)
- (figurative) main (the most important part of something)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
cerne
- inflection of cernir:
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin cernere, present active infinitive of cernō, from Proto-Italic *krinō, from Proto-Indo-European *krey-.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Verb edit
a cerne (third-person singular present cerne, past participle cernut) 3rd conj.
Conjugation edit
conjugation of cerne (third conjugation, past participle in -ut)
infinitive | a cerne | ||||||
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gerund | cernând | ||||||
past participle | cernut | ||||||
number | singular | plural | |||||
person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |
indicative | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | cern | cerni | cerne | cernem | cerneți | cern | |
imperfect | cerneam | cerneai | cernea | cerneam | cerneați | cerneau | |
simple perfect | cernui | cernuși | cernu | cernurăm | cernurăți | cernură | |
pluperfect | cernusem | cernuseși | cernuse | cernuserăm | cernuserăți | cernuseră | |
subjunctive | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | să cern | să cerni | să cearnă | să cernem | să cerneți | să cearnă | |
imperative | — | tu | — | — | voi | — | |
affirmative | cerne | cerneți | |||||
negative | nu cerne | nu cerneți |