cerne

Inherited from Old French [Term?], inherited from Latin circinus (“pair of compasses”); compare Romanian cearcăn.

• IPA^(key): /sɛʁn/

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cerne m (plural cernes)

1. dark bluish coloration around the eyes, periorbital dark circle
2. dark circle around a lesion
3. tree ring

This noun is often incorrectly considered as feminine.

• cerner

cerne

1. inflection of cerner:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

• encre, encré

• IPA^(key): /ˈθɛɾne̝/, (western) /ˈsɛɾne̝/

cerne m (plural cernes)

1. nonstandard form of cerna (“heartwood; core, kernel”)

cerne m or f (plural cernes)

1. nonstandard form of cerno (“steady, firm, upright; hard”)

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “çerna”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “çerno”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cerne”, 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), “cerne”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

cerne

1. third-person singular present indicative of cernere

cerne

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cernō

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• Homophone: CERN
• Hyphenation: cer‧ne

cerne m (plural cernes)

1. heartwood (wood nearer the heart of a stem)

   Synonyms: durame, (dialectal) teio

2. kernel (core or essence of an object or system)
3. (figurative) main (the most important part of something)

cerne

1. inflection of cernir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Inherited from Latin cernere, from Proto-Italic *krinō, from Proto-Indo-European *krey-.

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a cerne (third-person singular present cerne, past participle cernut, third-person subjunctive cearnă) 3rd conjugation

1. to sift
2. to discern

   Synonym: distinge

3. to screen, sort

• cernător
• cernere
• cernut

Inherited from Latin circen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈθeɾne/ [ˈθeɾ.ne] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈseɾne/ [ˈseɾ.ne] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -eɾne
• Syllabification: cer‧ne

cerne m or f (masculine and feminine plural cernes)

1. hard (wood)

• “cerne”, 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