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cena

cena

See also: cená, cenà, cenâ, cenā, ċena, and cé na

Czech

Noun

cena f

  1. price
  2. prize

Declension

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin cēna, from Proto-Italic *kert(e)snā, from Proto-Indo-European *kert-s-nh₂ (portion), from *ker-, *sker-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtʃena/, [ˈt͡ʃeː.na]
  • Hyphenation: cé‧na

Noun

cena f (plural cene)

  1. dinner (evening meal)

Derived terms

Verb

cena

  1. third-person singular present indicative of cenare
  2. second-person singular imperative of cenare

Anagrams


Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kert(e)snā (compare Umbrian śesna, Oscan kersnu), from Proto-Indo-European *kert-s-nh₂ (portion), from root (s)kert- (to cut), from *(s)ker- (compare Lithuanian kérti, Armenian քերթել (kʿertʿel, to skin), Sanskrit कृन्तति (kṛntáti, he cuts (in pieces))).[1] Related to cortex, scortum.

Pronunciation

Noun

cēna f (genitive cēnae); first declension

  1. dinner
  2. (law, historical) gwestva, a duty levied by Welsh kings twice a year upon the free men of their kingdom

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative cēna cēnae
genitive cēnae cēnārum
dative cēnae cēnīs
accusative cēnam cēnās
ablative cēnā cēnīs
vocative cēna cēnae

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • cena in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cena in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • CENA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cena”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
  • Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the main dish: caput cenae (Fin. 2. 8. 25)
    • to invite some one to dinner: aliquem vocare, invitare ad cenam
    • to accept an invitiation to dinner: promittere (ad cenam) (Off. 3. 14. 58)
    • during dinner; at table: inter cenam, inter epulas
    • to invite oneself to some one's house for dinner: condicere alicui (ad cenam)
    • to welcome some one to one's table: adhibere aliquem cenae or ad cenam, convivio or in convivium
    • to set a repast before a person: cenam alicui apponere
  • cena in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cena in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  1. Michiel de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 106.

Verb

cēnā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of cēnō

Latvian

Noun

cena f (4th declension)

  1. price

Declension


Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *cěna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kainā, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoyneh₂.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sɛna/

Noun

cena f

  1. price

Declension

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin scaena.

Pronunciation

Noun

cena f (plural cenas)

  1. scene
  2. stage
    em cena ― on stage
  3. (Portugal) thing

Synonyms

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:cena.


Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *cěna, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoyneh₂.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tsěːna/
  • Hyphenation: ce‧na

Noun

céna f (Cyrillic spelling це́на)

  1. price
  2. value, worth

Declension

Derived terms


Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *cěna, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoyneh₂.

Noun

cena f

  1. price

Declension


Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *cěna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kainā, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoyneh₂.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtsèːna/
  • Tonal orthography: cẹ́na

Noun

céna f (genitive céne, nominative plural céne)

  1. price (cost required to gain possession of something)

Declension


Spanish

Etymology

From Latin cēna, from Proto-Italic *kert(e)snā, from Proto-Indo-European *kert-s-nh₂ (portion), from *ker-, *sker-.

Pronunciation

Noun

cena f (plural cenas)

  1. supper, dinner

Derived terms

Verb

cena

  1. Informal second-person singular () affirmative imperative form of cenar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of cenar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of cenar.