cem

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cem"

English

Etymology

Shortening.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛm

Noun

cem (plural cems)

1. (UK, Australia, colloquial) cemetery

   I'm planning a trip to the cem next week to gather some genealogical information.

See also

• crem

Anagrams

• CME, ECM, EMC, E=mc², MEC, mec

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛm/

Preposition

cem

1. next to

Portuguese

Portuguese numbers ^(edit)

		1,000
←  90	←  99	100	200  →	1,000  →
		10
Cardinal: (alone or followed by a noun or higher numeral) cem, (followed by a lower numeral) cento     Ordinal: centésimo     Ordinal abbreviation: 100.º     Multiplier: cêntuplo     Fractional: centésimo, cem avos

Alternative forms

• cento (see usage notes)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cen, from cento, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsẽj̃/ [ˈsẽɪ̯̃]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsɐ̃j̃/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ẽj̃, (Portugal) -ɐ̃j̃
• Homophone: sem
• Hyphenation: cem

Adjective

cem m or f

1. one hundred (100)

   Vieram cem pessoas.

   One hundred people came.

Noun

cem m (invariable)

1. a value of one hundred

   Tirei um cem na prova.

   I got a [score of] one hundred on the test.

2. (uncommon) a figure representing one hundred (such as 100 or C)

   Está vendo aquele cem?

   Are you seeing that 100?

Usage notes

• cem is used when standing alone as a numeral:

  de um até cem ― from one to one hundred

• cem is used when followed by a noun:

  cem pessoas ― one hundred people

• cem is used when followed by a higher numeral:

  cem mil ― one hundred thousand

  cem milhões ― one hundred million

• cento is used when followed by a lower numeral:

  cento e duas pessoas ― one hundred and two people

• cento is used as a noun referring to 100 units of something:

  dois centos de maçãs ― two hundred apples (literally, “two hundred units of apples”)

See also

• duzentos m (“two hundred”), duzentas f
• trezentos m (“three hundred”), trezentas f
• quatrocentos m (“four hundred”), quatrocentas f
• quinhentos m (“five hundred”), quinhentas f
• seiscentos m (“six hundred”), seiscentas f
• setecentos m (“seven hundred”), setecentas f
• oitocentos m (“eight hundred”), oitocentas f
• novecentos m (“nine hundred”), novecentas f

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃem/

Noun

cem (nominative plural cems)

1. room

Declension

declension of cem

	singular	plural
nominative	cem	cems
genitive	cema	cemas
dative	ceme	cemes
accusative	cemi	cemis
vocative 1	o cem!	o cems!
predicative 2	cemu	cemus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms

• fidacem

White Hmong

Verb

cem

1. to scold; to curse; to revile