cete

cete (plural cetes)

1. (rare) A cetacean.

cete (plural cetes)

1. (obsolete) A company of badgers.

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “cete”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Learned borrowing from Latin cētē, plural form of cētos, alternative form of cētus, from Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos, “any sea-monster or huge fish”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛ.te/
• Rhymes: -ɛte
• Hyphenation: cè‧te

cete f (plural ceti)

1. (obsolete) whale

   Synonym: balena

• cetaceo

• cete in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

cētē

1. nominative/accusative plural of cētos

cēte

1. vocative singular of cētus

• “cete”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cete”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

cete

1. alternative form of cite

ċēte f

1. (Anglian) alternative form of ċȳte

cete

1. plural of ceată

cete

1. sharp