ceria

See also: cèria and cëria

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪəɹiə

Noun

ceria (countable and uncountable, plural cerias)

  1. (inorganic chemistry) The compound cerium(IV) oxide.

Derived terms

  • ceric oxide
  • cerium oxide
  • cerium dioxide

Anagrams

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay ceria, from Pali cariya (“conduct, behaviour, state of, life of”), from Sanskrit चर्य (carya, “observance of all rites and customs, conduct, behaviour”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

cêria (comparative lebih ceria, superlative paling ceria)

  1. cheerful (noticeably happy and optimistic; bright and pleasant)
  2. (rare) synonym of murni (“pure”)

Noun

ceria

  1. (archaic) rules in king enthronement

Derived terms

  • ceriakan (“to cheer, cheer up; to purify”)
  • keceriaan (“cheerfulness, purity”)
  • penceriaan (“cheering; purification”)
  • seceria (“as cheeful as; as pure as”)

Further reading

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

ceria

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of cerium

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ceria f (genitive ceriae); first declension

  1. a Spanish drink prepared with corn
Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative ceria ceriae
genitive ceriae ceriārum
dative ceriae ceriīs
accusative ceriam ceriās
ablative ceriā ceriīs
vocative ceria ceriae
Alternative forms

References

  • “ceria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "ceria", 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)
  • ceria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Paelignian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *keresjos, from *Kerēs, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-.

Adjective

ceria f (nominative singular)

  1. of or pertaining to Ceres
    • Ve.204:
      saluta musesa. pa
      anaceta.ceria
      et.aisis sato
      • Translation by Rex Wallace
        Saluta Mussidia, daughter of Pa., (dedicated this) sacred (object) to Anagta Cerialis and to the gods.

References

  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 109
  • Rex Wallace (1984) The Sabellian Languages‎[1] (quotation in English; overall work in English), page 107
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