sé

See also: Appendix:Variations of "se"

Bassa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sé]

Noun

sé

1. arrow

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

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Catalan

Verb

sé

1. first-person singular present indicative form of saber

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese see, from Latin sēdēs (“seat”), from sedeō (“I sit”), from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”). Doublet of sede.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ/

Noun

sé f (plural sés)

1. (Roman Catholicism) see; cathedral

   Synonym: catedral

Derived terms

• A Sé
• Santa Sé

Verb

sé

1. second-person singular imperative of ser

References

• “see” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “see” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “sé” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “sé” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

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Irish

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish sé, from Old Irish é.

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ʃeː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ʃɛ/, /ʃə/

Pronoun

sé (emphatic form seisean, conjunctive)

1. he
2. (referring to a masculine noun) it

See also

Irish personal pronouns

Number	Person (and gender)	Conjunctive (emphatic)	Disjunctive (emphatic)	Possessive determiner
Singular	First	mé (mise)		mo L m' before vowel sounds
	Second	tú (tusa)1	thú (thusa)	do L d' before vowel sounds
	Third masculine	sé (seisean)	é (eisean)	a L
	Third feminine	sí (sise)	í (ise)	a H
Plural	First	muid, sinn (muidne, muide), (sinne)		ár E
	Second	sibh (sibhse)1		bhur E
	Third	siad (siadsan)	iad (iadsan)	a E

^L Triggers lenition ^E Triggers eclipsis ^H Triggers h-prothesis

¹ Also used as the vocative

The reflexive is formed by adding féin to the relevant pronoun: e.g. "myself" = mé féin, "yourselves" = sibh féin.

Etymology 2

Irish cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : sé     Ordinal : séú     Personal : seisear

From Old Irish sé, from Proto-Celtic *swexs, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs. Compare Scottish Gaelic sia, Manx shey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃeː/
• Homophone: ’sé

Numeral

sé

1. six

Usage notes

• May be used with nouns in both the singular and plural; the singular is more common in general, but the plural must be used with units of measurement and the like. Triggers lenition of nouns in the singular and h-prothesis of nouns in the plural:

• sé chat ― six cats
• sé troithe ― six feet
• sé huaire ― six times

• When used with the definite article, the definite article is always in the plural. When used with nouns modified by adjectives, the adjective is also in the plural and is always lenited after nouns in the singular but only lenites after nouns in the plural when they end in slender consonants:

• sé chapall bhána ― six white horses
• na sé eaglais mhóra ― the six big churches

But:

• sé capaill bhána ― six white horses
• na sé heaglaisí móra ― the six big churches

• When referring to human beings, the personal form seisear is used.

Derived terms

• seisear (used to modify personal nouns)
• séú (ordinal)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
sé	shé after an, tsé	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• "sé" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 sé”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 sé”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin sē.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seː/
• Rhymes: -e

Pronoun

sé

1. (disjunctive, emphatic) oneself, himself, herself

Derived terms

• se stesso

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Ladin

Verb

sé

1. first-person singular present indicative of savei

Pronoun

sé

1. oneself, himself, herself

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Norman

Etymology 1

From Old French sec, from Latin siccus, from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-.

Adjective

sé m

1. (Jersey) dry

Alternative forms

• saec (Guernsey)

Derived terms

• couême sècque (“dried cow dung”)

Related terms

• s'tchi

Etymology 2

From Old French seir, soir, from Latin sērō (“at a late hour, late”), from sērus (“late”).

Noun

sé m (plural sés)

1. (Jersey) evening

Alternative forms

• saer (Guernsey)

Etymology 3

From Old French sel, from Latin sāl, salem.

Noun

sé m (plural sés)

1. (Jersey) salt

Alternative forms

• saïl (Guernsey)

Related terms

• saler

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *swexs, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʲeː/

Numeral

Old Irish cardinal numbers

<  5	6	7  >
Cardinal : sé     Ordinal : seissed

sé

1. six

Descendants

• Irish: sé
• Manx: shey
• Scottish Gaelic: sia

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “sé”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Old Norse

Verb

sé

1. inflection of sjá:
   1. first-person plural present indicative
   2. third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person plural present subjunctive
   4. second-person singular imperative
2. inflection of vera:
   1. third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural present subjunctive

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese see, from Latin sēdēs (“seat”), from sedeō (“I sit”), from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ/
• Hyphenation: sé
• Homophone: Sé

Noun

sé f (plural sés)

1. (Roman Catholicism) see (the cathedral and region under the jurisdiction of a bishop)

Derived terms

• Santa Sé
• Sé

See also

• cátedra
• bispo
• diocese

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈse/
• Homophones: se, ce (non-Castilian)
• Rhymes: -e

Etymology 1

See saber

Verb

sé

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of saber.

   No sé.

   I do not know.

Etymology 2

See ser

Verb

sé

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of ser.

   ¡Sé un voluntario!

   Be a volunteer!

Etymology 3

See sí

Interjection

sé

1. (colloquial, Chile, Mexico) yes

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Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch zee.

Noun

sé

1. sea

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Walloon

Etymology

From Old French sel, from Latin sāl, salem.

Noun

sé ?

1. salt