cet

• c't (colloquial)

From Middle French cest, from Old French cist~cest, from Vulgar Latin *ecce iste, from Latin ecce + iste.

• IPA^(key): /sɛ.t‿/ ~ /se.t‿/, /st‿/

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• Homophones: cette, sept, set, Sète
• Rhymes: -ɛt, -et

cet

1. this

   Synonym: (before a masculine noun not starting with a vowel sound) ce

   • 1837 Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche^{fr.Wikisource}, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:

     Or, il faut savoir que cet hidalgo, dans les moments où il restait oisif, c’est-à-dire à peu près toute l’année, s’adonnait à lire des livres de chevalerie....

     Yet, it must be known that this hidalgo, in the moments where he remained idle, that is to say just about the whole year, devoted himself to reading books of chivalry....

• Used before a masculine noun starting with a vowel sound.

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

• etc.

Borrowed from Latin cētus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɛt]
• Rhymes: -ɛt

cet (plural cetek)

1. (formal) whale

   Synonym: bálna

• cet in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• cet in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Borrowed from Latin licet.

• IPA^(key): /kʲed/

cet

1. I agree, permission granted, etc.

cet (indeclinable in the early language, with the copula)

1. something allowable, permissible
2. something required
3. permission
4. good will

• Irish: cead
• Scottish Gaelic: cead

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cet”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čet.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt
• Syllabification: cet

cet m inan

1. (obsolete) even number^[1][2]

• cet in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish جد (cedd, cet, “a grandfather, one's ancestor”),^[1] from Arabic جَدّ (jadd, “grandfather, ancestor, glory”) from جَدَّ (jadda, “to be new, to be serious or earnest”).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒet/
• Hyphenation: cet

cet (definite accusative ceddi, plural (uncommon) cetler or ecdat)

1. (rare) grandfather, ancestor, elder

   Synonyms: dede, ata, büyükbaba

• “cet”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “cet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 783