cena

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

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *cěna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kainā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sɛna/
  • audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛna

Noun

cena f

  1. price
  2. prize

Declension

Further reading

  • cena in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • cena in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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]
  • Audio(file)
  • 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

See also

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)
  • cena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (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

Etymology

Borrowed from Slavic.

Noun

cena f (4th declension)

  1. price

Declension

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *cěna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kainā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sɛ.na/
  • audio(file)

Noun

cena f

  1. price

Declension

Further reading

  • cena in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin scaena.

Pronunciation

Noun

cena f (plural cenas)

  1. scene
  2. stage
    Synonym: palco
    em cena ― on stage
  3. (Portugal, informal) thing
    Synonyms: coisa, troço, treco, negócio, bagulho, bagaça, trem, pira, bang

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:cena.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *cěna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kainā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂.

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-Balto-Slavic *kainā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sɛna/

Noun

cena f (genitive singular ceny, nominative plural ceny, genitive plural cien, declension pattern of žena)

  1. price

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • cena in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *cěna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kainā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂.

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 (tú) 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.
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