cem

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English

Etymology

Shortening.

Pronunciation

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

Anagrams

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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 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

Volapük

Pronunciation

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

White Hmong

Verb

cem

  1. to scold; to curse; to revile
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