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ceri m (uncountable)
Learned borrowing from Latin cēreus. Doublet of ciri, a semilearned borrowing.
ceri (feminine cèria, masculine plural ceris, feminine plural cèries)
- “ceri” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “ceri”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “ceri” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “ceri” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
From English cherry, from Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse (“cherry”), both ultimately from Vulgar Latin ceresia, from Late Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin. Mostly replaced both kersen and kers.
ceri (first-person possessive ceriku, second-person possessive cerimu, third-person possessive cerinya)
- cherry:
- a small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
- Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
- The wood of a cherry tree.
- “ceri” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
ceri m
ceri
- inflection of cerēt:
ceri
ceri f
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈkɛrɪ/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈkeːri/, /ˈkɛri/
Related to Old Irish cáer (“berry”).[1] Outside of Celtic, likely related to Latin carīna (“half of a walnut shell; ship keel”); see there for more.[2]
ceri f (collective, singulative cerïen)
- rowan trees
- Synonym: criafol
- hips (fruit), especially of dogrose or briar
- Synonym: egroes
- medlar trees
- Synonym: merysbrennau
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
- cari (colloquial)
ceri
- ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “ceri”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “carīna”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 93