cen

Galician

Alternative forms

• cento (combining form only)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eŋ
• Hyphenation: cen

Numeral

cen (indeclinable)

1. one hundred; 100

Usage notes

The indeclinable form cen means "one hundred" only. To say "one hundred one", the combining form cento is used, as cento un or cento unha. Likewise, "one hundred thirty" is cento trinta, and "one hundred fifty-four" is cento cincuenta e catro.

See also

• douscentos (“two hundred”)
• trescentos (“three hundred”)
• quiñentos (“five hundred”)
• setecentos (“seven hundred”)

Further reading

• “cen” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Mandarin

Romanization

cen

1. Nonstandard spelling of cēn.
2. Nonstandard spelling of cén.

Usage notes

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *kiʀn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃeːn/

Noun

ċēn m

1. (poetic) torch
2. the runic character ᚳ (/k/ or /tʃ/)

Synonyms

• (torch): þæċele
• fæcele

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kina (“on this side of”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe (“this, here”); compare Breton ken (“otherwise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʲen/

Preposition

cen (governs the accusative; triggers lenition)

1. except
2. without
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 20^d4

     Cía ru·bé cen ní diib, ní·rubai cenaib huli.

     Though he might be without some of them, he could not be without all of them.

3. not to (followed by a verbal noun)
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 9^c20

     cid atob·aich cen dílgud cech ancridi do·gnethe frib, et ní bethe fria acre

     what impels you pl not to forgive every injury that may have been done to you, and that you should not be about to sue it?

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Irish: gan
• Manx: gyn
• Scottish Gaelic: gun

Mutation

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, §§ 434, 827, pages 273, 501

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sɛn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛn
• Syllabification: cen

Noun

cen f

1. genitive plural of cena

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English change.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃen/

Noun

cen (nominative plural cens)

1. change, transition, turn

Declension

Derived terms

• yelacen (“turn of the year”)

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kenni- (“skin”) (compare Cornish kenn (“film, skin (on liquid); peel”), Breton kenn (“scurf, dandruff”), Old Irish ceinn (“scale”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sken- (“to split off”) (compare German schinden (“to strip, peel; skin”)); further to Cornish skans (“fish scales”), Breton skant (“fish scales”), Irish scain (“to tear, burst”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɛn/

Noun

cen m (plural cennau)

1. (dermatology) scurf, dandruff

   Synonyms: marwdon, sgrwff

2. (biology) scale (on fish, bud)

   Synonym: cennyn

3. (chemistry) scale, scurf, fur (in pipe, boiler, furnace, kettle)

   Synonym: calch

4. (mycology) lichen

   Synonym: cen y cerrig

Derived terms

Mutation