celeste

Borrowed from French céleste (“heavenly”), from Latin caelestis.

• (US) IPA^(key): /səˈlɛst/

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• Rhymes: -ɛst

celeste (countable and uncountable, plural celestes)

1. (music) Alternative form of celesta (“musical instrument”).
2. (music) An organ stop, deliberately slightly out of tune to give an undulating sound.
3. (heraldry) Bleu celeste.

• bleu celeste

Borrowed from Latin caelestis.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [səˈles.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [seˈles.te]

celeste m (plural celestes)

1. celesta

celeste m or f (masculine and feminine plural celestes)

1. celestial; heavenly

• cos celeste

• cel

• “celeste”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “celeste”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “celeste” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “celeste” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃeˈleste/
• Hyphenation: ce‧les‧te

celeste (plural celesti)

1. alternative form of celestu

• “celestu, celeste, cilestu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Learned borrowing from Latin caelestis.

celeste m or f (plural celestes)

1. celestial
2. heavenly

celeste m or f by sense (plural celestes)

1. (soccer) A fan, player, or other person associated with Celta de Vigo, a football team from the Spanish town of Vigo

• celtista

• celesto, cilestro

From Latin caelestis.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃeˈlɛs.te/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛste
• Hyphenation: ce‧lè‧ste

celeste m or f (plural celesti)

1. celestial
2. heavenly
3. pale blue, sky blue

• celestiale
• sopracceleste
• volta celeste

celeste m (plural celesti)

1. pale blue, sky blue

From Old French celeste, borrowed from Latin caelestis.

celeste m or f (plural celestes)

1. celestial; heavenly

• French: céleste

Borrowed from Latin caelestis.

celeste m (oblique and nominative feminine singular celeste)

1. celestial; heavenly

• Middle French: celeste
  • French: céleste

From Old Galician-Portuguese celeste, borrowed from Latin caelestis (“celestial”), from caelum (“sky”).

• Homophone: Celeste
• Hyphenation: ce‧les‧te

celeste m or f (plural celestes)

1. celestial (relating to the sky)
2. (astronomy) celestial (relating to space)

   Synonyms: espacial, sideral, sidéreo, sidérico

3. (religion) heavenly (relating to heaven)

   Synonym: celestial

4. sky blue (of a pale blue colour, like that of the sky on a fine day)

   Synonyms: cerúleo, cérulo

• (heavenly): infernal, terreno

• celestial
• céu

Borrowed from Latin caelestis.

• IPA^(key): /θeˈleste/ [θeˈles.t̪e] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /seˈleste/ [seˈles.t̪e] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -este
• Syllabification: ce‧les‧te

celeste m or f (masculine and feminine plural celestes)

1. sky blue
2. heavenly

   Synonym: célico

3. (heraldry) bleu celeste

celeste m (plural celestes)

1. sky blue
2. (heraldry) bleu celeste

celeste m or f by sense (plural celestes) (soccer)

1. a fan, player, or other person associated with Celta de Vigo, a football team from the Spanish town of Vigo

   Synonym: celtista

2. the nickname for the Uruguay National Football Team

• “celeste”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024