cer

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Crimean Tatar

Noun

cer (Northern dialect)

  1. ground, land
  2. place
  3. world

Usage notes

  • Literary form: yer

Czech

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia cs

Noun

cer m inan

  1. Turkey oak (Quercus cerris)
Declension

Etymology 2

Chemical element
Ce
Previous: lanthan (La)
Next: praseodym (Pr)
Czech Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia cs

Noun

cer m inan

  1. cerium (chemical element)
Declension

Further reading

  • cer”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • cer”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • cer”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Latvian

Pronunciation

Verb

cer

  1. third-person singular/plural present indicative of cerēt
  2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of cerēt
  3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of cerēt

Northern Tujia

Pronunciation

Noun

cer

  1. water

References

  • Cecilia Brassett, Philip Brassett & Meiyan Lu (2006) The Tujia language, Lincom Europa, →OCLC, page 35
  • STEDT Database

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl
Chemical element
Ce
Previous: lantan (La)
Next: prazeodym (Pr)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sɛr/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛr
  • Syllabification: cer

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from New Latin cerium.

Noun

cer m inan (related adjective cerowy)

  1. cerium (chemical element (symbol Ce) with an atomic number of 58, a very soft, ductile, silvery-white metal that tarnishes when exposed to air)
Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

cer f

  1. genitive plural of cera

Further reading

  • cer in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • cer in PWN's encyclopedia

Romanian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin caelum.

Noun

cer n (plural ceruri)

  1. sky
  2. (chiefly in the plural) heaven
    Synonyms: paradis, rai
Usage notes

The English construction in the sky has the Romanian equivalent pe cer (literally on the sky). In the sense of “heaven”, however, it is still the preposition în (in) that is used.

Declension
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative cer cerul ceruri cerurile
genitive-dative cer cerului ceruri cerurilor
vocative cerule cerurilor
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

cer

  1. inflection of cere (to ask):
    1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. third-person plural present indicative

Etymology 3

Inherited from Latin cerrus.

Noun

cer m (plural ceri)

  1. Turkey oak (tree, Quercus cerris)
Declension
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative cer cerul ceri cerii
genitive-dative cer cerului ceri cerilor
vocative cerule cerilor

Further reading

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Derived from Proto-Slavic *cerъ, from Latin cerrus.

Pronunciation

Noun

cȅr m (Cyrillic spelling це̏р)

  1. Turkey oak (tree, Quercus cerris)

Declension

Further reading

  • cer”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Slovak

Etymology

Derived from Latin cerrus.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

cer m inan (relational adjective cerový)

  1. Turkey oak (tree, Quercus cerris)

Declension

References

  1. ^ Králik, Ľubor (2016) “cer”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN, page 92

Further reading

  • cer”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Welsh

Pronunciation

Verb

cer

  1. (South Wales) second-person singular imperative of mynd

Synonyms

  • dos (literary and North Wales)