cera

Asturian

Asturian Wikipedia has an article on:

cera

Wikipedia ^ast

Etymology

From Latin cēra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθeɾa/,

Noun

cera f (plural ceres)

1. wax

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin cēra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)
• Rhymes: -eɾa

Noun

cera f (plural ceres)

1. wax

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “cera” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Fala

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cera (“wax”), from Latin cēra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθeɾa/

Noun

cera f (plural ceras)

1. wax

References

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Galician

Galician Wikipedia has an article on:

cera

Wikipedia ^gl

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cera, from Latin cēra.

Noun

cera f (plural ceras)

1. wax

Further reading

• “cera” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “cera” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cera” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Gallurese

Alternative forms

• zera (Aggius)

Etymology

Inherited from Classical Latin cēra, probably a borrowing from a substrate language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃera/

Noun

cera f (plural ceri)

1. wax. beeswax

References

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cēra (“wax”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.ra/
• Rhymes: -era
• Hyphenation: cé‧ra

Noun

cera f (plural cere)

1. wax
2. complexion

Derived terms

References

• cera in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• cera in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• cera in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• cera in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Anagrams

• Arce, acre, care, crea, reca

Latin

Etymology 1

A foreign loan from a substrate language, cognate with Ancient Greek κηρός (kērós) and Albanian qiri, and possibly also with Lithuanian korys and Latvian kāre.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkeː.ra/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.ra/,

Noun

cēra f (genitive cērae); first declension

1. wax, beeswax, honeycomb
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.747–748:

     audit in exēsa strīdōrem exāminis ulmō,
     aspicit et cērās dissimulatque senex

     hears the buzzing of a swarm in a hollowed-out elm tree,
     and the old man can see the honeycombs, yet he dissimulates .
     (Ovid's word play relates the ‘‘exesus’’ – the tree's ‘‘having been consumed’’ – with the ‘‘examen’’ or swarm, which Silenus mistakenly assumes are bees; instead, moments later when he looks inside the tree he is attacked by hornets.)

2. a wax seal
3. a wax image

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkeː.raː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.ra/,

Verb

cērā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cērō

References

• “cera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cera in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cera”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cera”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin cēra.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Béarn)

  (file)

Noun

cera f (plural ceras)

1. wax

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛ.ra/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Syllabification: ce‧ra
• Homophone: Cera

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian cera, from Latin cēra.

Noun

cera f

1. complexion (appearance of the skin on the face)

Etymology 2

Deverbal from cerować.

Noun

cera f

1. (sewing) darn (filling in a hole in the fabric created by rubbing, tearing, or tearing out a piece of it by using interlaced stitch)

Declension

Further reading

• cera in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• cera in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

cera

Wikipedia ^pt

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cera (“wax”), from Latin cēra.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɾɐ
• Hyphenation: ce‧ra

Noun

cera f (plural ceras)

1. wax (oily, water-resistant substance)
2. earwax, cerumen

Related terms

• cerume

Sassarese

Pronunciation

• (Castelsardo) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃera/

Noun

cera f (plural ceri)

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of zera (“wax. beeswax”)

References

Silesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Czech céra, dcera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛra/
• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Syllabification: ce‧ra

Noun

cera f

1. daughter

References

Further reading

• cera in silling.org

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cēra (“wax”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθeɾa/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈseɾa/

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: ce‧ra

Noun

cera f (plural ceras)

1. wax
2. (Spain) crayon

   Synonyms: (Colombia, Venezuela, Canary Islands) creyón, (Argentina, Guatemala, Honduras, Uruguay) crayón, (Cuba, Mexico, Peru) crayola, (Spain) lápiz de cera

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “cera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Anagrams

• acre, arce, crea, caer