cer

cer (Northern dialect)

1. ground, land
2. place
3. world

• Literary form: yer

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɛr]

cer m inan

1. Turkey oak (Quercus cerris)

cer m inan

1. cerium (chemical element)

• “cer”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “cer”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “cer”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /t͡ser/

cer

1. third-person singular/plural present indicative of cerēt
2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of cerēt
3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of cerēt

• IPA^(key): /tsʰe˨˩/

cer

1. water

• Cecilia Brassett, Philip Brassett & Meiyan Lu (2006) The Tujia language, Lincom Europa, →OCLC, page 35
• STEDT Database

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛr/

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• Rhymes: -ɛr
• Syllabification: cer

Learned borrowing from New Latin cerium.

cer m inan (related adjective cerowy)

1. cerium (chemical element (symbol Ce) with an atomic number of 58, a very soft, ductile, silvery-white metal that tarnishes when exposed to air)

See czyr.

cer m inan

1. (Podlachia) alternative form of czyr

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cer f

1. genitive plural of cera

• cer in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• cer in PWN's encyclopedia
• Jan Karłowicz (1900) “czyr”, in Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 1: A do E, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 295

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃer/

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• Rhymes: -er

Inherited from Latin caelum.

cer n (plural ceruri)

1. sky
2. (chiefly in the plural) heaven

   Synonyms: paradis, rai

The English construction in the sky has the Romanian equivalent pe cer (literally “on the sky”). In the sense of “heaven”, however, it is still the preposition în (“in”) that is used.

• ceresc
• cerul gurii

• celest

cer

1. inflection of cere (“to ask”):
   1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. third-person plural present indicative

Inherited from Latin cerrus.

cer m (plural ceri)

1. Turkey oak (tree, Quercus cerris)

• “cer”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

Derived from Proto-Slavic *cerъ, from Latin cerrus.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sêr/

cȅr m inan (Cyrillic spelling це̏р)

1. Turkey oak (tree, Quercus cerris)

• “cer”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Derived from Latin cerrus.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [t͡ser]

cer m inan (relational adjective cerový)

1. Turkey oak (tree, Quercus cerris)

• “cer”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /kɛr/

cer

1. (South Wales) second-person singular imperative of mynd

• dos (literary and North Wales)