cerise

Borrowed from French cerise (mid 19th century), itself from Vulgar Latin ceresia, from Latin cerasium. Doublet of cherry and kirsch.

• IPA^(key): /səˈɹiːz/, /səˈɹiːs/

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• Rhymes: -iːz, -iːs

cerise (countable and uncountable, plural cerises)

1. A deep, bright red colour tinted with pink.

   cerise:  

   • 1927, Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Gay-Neck, the Story of a Pigeon, E.P. Dutton & Co., page 67:

     Before us lay the autumn tinted woods glimmering in gold, purple, green, and cerise.

   • 1980, Donald Pavey, Color, page 116:

     His bold patterns in vivid colours predated the arrival in Paris of the Ballets Russes, though his later designs reflect the canary yellows, bright blues, jades, cerises […]

• Hollywood cerise

cerise (comparative more cerise, superlative most cerise)

1. (of textiles, especially silk) Cherry-colored; a light bright red.

Inherited from Old French cerise, from Vulgar Latin ceresia, from the neuter plural of Late Latin ceresium, from Latin cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin.

• IPA^(key): /sə.ʁiz/

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• Rhymes: -iz
• Homophone: cerises

cerise (invariable)

1. cerise colour

cerise f (plural cerises)

1. cherry (fruit)

   Coordinate term: griotte

2. cerise (color)

• cerise sur le gâteau
• gâteau sous la cerise
• ne pas avoir mis la queue aux cerises
• queues de cerises
• tomate cerise

• Haitian Creole: seriz
• → English: cerise
• → Swedish: cerise

• “cerise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• cirées, criées, écries

• kerise
• cherise

From Vulgar Latin ceresia, from the neuter plural of Late Latin ceresium, from Latin cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin.

• IPA^(key): /t͡səˈɾizə/

cerise oblique singular, f (oblique plural cerises, nominative singular cerise, nominative plural cerises)

1. cherry

• Bourguignon: cerize
• Champenois: cerège
• Franc-Comtois: çlîse
• French: cerise (see there for further descendants)
• Lorrain: celije
• Norman: chérise (Jersey), cherise (Continental Normandy)
• Picard: chrisse
• Poitevin-Saintongeais: ceràese
• Walloon: ceréjhe
• → Middle English: cheri (see there for further descendants)

Borrowed from French cerise.

cerise c

1. cerise

cerise

1. cerise