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ceri m (uncountable)

  1. cerium

Learned borrowing from Latin cēreus. Doublet of ciri, a semilearned borrowing.

ceri (feminine cèria, masculine plural ceris, feminine plural cèries)

  1. waxen

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.

  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛri]
  • Hyphenation: cè‧ri

ceri (first-person possessive ceriku, second-person possessive cerimu, third-person possessive cerinya)

  1. cherry:
    1. a small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
    2. Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
    3. The wood of a cherry tree.
  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.ri/
  • Rhymes: -eri
  • Hyphenation: cé‧ri

ceri m

  1. plural of cero

ceri

  1. inflection of cerēt:
    1. second-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

ceri

  1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of cere

ceri f

  1. indefinite genitive/dative singular of ceară

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)

  1. rowan trees
    Synonym: criafol
  2. hips (fruit), especially of dogrose or briar
    Synonym: egroes
  3. medlar trees
    Synonym: merysbrennau

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ceri

  1. (literary) second-person singular present indicative/future of caru
  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ 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