ciel

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See also: cièl, cieľ, ĉiel, and -ciel

English

Verb

ciel (third-person singular simple present ciels, present participle cieling, simple past and past participle cieled)

  1. Alternative form of ceil

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French ciel, from Latin caelum, from Proto-Italic *kailom, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂i-lom (“whole”), from *keh₂i-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sjɛl/
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Noun

ciel m (plural cieux or ciels)

  1. sky
  2. heaven
    On croyait au ciel. ― We believed in heaven.

Usage notes

In poetic or religious senses, often in the plural: Notre Père qui es aux cieux... ― Our Father who art in heaven...

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • Haitian Creole: syèl

Noun

ciel m (plural ciels)

  1. canopy (of a bed, etc.)

Interjection

ciel

  1. heavens!

Further reading

Italian

Noun

ciel m (apocopated)

  1. Apocopic form of cielo

Anagrams

Norman

Etymology

From Old French ciel, from Latin caelum.

Pronunciation

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Noun

ciel m (plural cieux)

  1. (Jersey) sky

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin caelum. The nominative singular derives from attested Vulgar Latin caelus.

Pronunciation

Noun

ciel oblique singular, m (oblique plural cieus or ciex or ciels, nominative singular cieus or ciex or ciels, nominative plural ciel)

  1. heaven

Descendants

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ɕɛl/
  • Rhymes: -ɛl
  • Syllabification: ciel

Verb

ciel

  1. second-person singular imperative of cielić

Volapük

Noun

ciel (nominative plural ciels)

  1. gill

Declension

declension of ciel
singular plural
nominative ciel ciels
genitive ciela cielas
dative ciele cieles
accusative cieli cielis
vocative 1 o ciel! o ciels!
predicative 2 cielu cielus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
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