cera

From Latin cēra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθeɾa/ [ˈθe.ɾa]

cera f (plural ceres)

1. wax

From Latin cēra.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈsɛ.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈsə.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈse.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -eɾa

cera f (plural ceres)

1. wax

• “cera”, 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

From Old Galician-Portuguese cera (“wax”), from Latin cēra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθeɾa/
• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: ce‧ra

cera f (plural ceras)

1. wax

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

From Old Galician-Portuguese cera, from Latin cēra.

• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Hyphenation: ce‧ra

cera f (plural ceras)

1. wax

• “cera”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cera”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cera”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• zera (Aggius)

Inherited from Classical Latin cēra, probably a borrowing from a substrate language.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃera/^[1]

cera f (plural ceri)

1. wax. beeswax

From Latin cēra (“wax”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.ra/
• Rhymes: -era
• Hyphenation: cé‧ra

cera f (plural cere)

1. wax
2. complexion

• cera in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• cera in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• cera in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• cera in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

• Arce, acre, care, crea, reca

A foreign loan from a substrate language, cognate with Ancient Greek κηρός (kērós) and Albanian qiri,^[1] and possibly also with Lithuanian korỹs (“honeycomb”) and Latvian kāre.^[2][3]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkeː.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛː.ra]

cēra f (genitive cērae); first declension

1. wax, beeswax, honeycomb
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.747–748:

     audit in exēsa strīdōrem exāminis ulmō,
     aspicit et cērās dissimulatque senex

     [Silenus] hears the buzzing of a swarm in a hollowed-out elm tree,
     and the old man can see the honeycombs, yet he dissimulates [pretends as if he has found nothing].
     (Ovid's word play relates the ‘‘exesus’’ – the tree's ‘‘having been consumed’’ – with the ‘‘examen’’ or swarm, which Silenus mistakenly assumes are bees; instead, moments later when he looks inside the tree he is attacked by hornets.)

2. a wax seal
3. a wax image

First-declension noun.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkeː.raː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛː.ra]

cērā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cērō

• “cera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "cera", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cera”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cera”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

From Latin cēra.

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cera f (plural ceras)

1. wax

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛ.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Syllabification: ce‧ra
• Homophone: Cera

Borrowed from Italian cera, from Latin cēra.

cera f

1. complexion (appearance of the skin on the face)

Deverbal from cerować.

cera f

1. (sewing) darn (filling in a hole in the fabric created by rubbing, tearing, or tearing out a piece of it by using interlaced stitch)

• cera in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• cera in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Old Galician-Portuguese cera (“wax”), from Latin cēra.

• Rhymes: -eɾɐ
• Hyphenation: ce‧ra

cera f (plural ceras)

1. wax (oily, water-resistant substance)
2. earwax, cerumen

• cerume

• (Castelsardo) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃera/^[1]

cera f (plural ceri)

1. (dialectal) alternative form of zera (“wax. beeswax”)

Borrowed from Czech céra, dcera.^[1] Displaced Old Polish córa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛ.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Syllabification: ce‧ra

cera f

1. daughter

• cera in silling.org

Inherited from Latin cēra (“wax”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈθeɾa/ [ˈθe.ɾa] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈseɾa/ [ˈse.ɾa] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: ce‧ra

cera f (plural ceras)

1. wax
2. (Spain) crayon

   Synonyms: (Colombia, Venezuela, Canary Islands) creyón, (Argentina, Guatemala, Honduras, Uruguay) crayón, (Cuba, Mexico, Peru) crayola, (Spain) lápiz de cera

• “cera”, 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

• acre, arce, crea, caer