ceto

Borrowed from Latin coetus (“group, society”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛ.to/
• Rhymes: -ɛto
• Hyphenation: cè‧to

ceto m (plural ceti)

1. (sociology, economy) class (in society)

   Synonym: rango

   il ceto medio ― middle class

• Toce, cote, ecto-, teco

ceto

1. nonstandard spelling of cetha

cētō

1. dative/ablative singular of cētus

• cetu, cíato

Univerbation of ce, cía (“although”) +‎ it (“they are”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʲedo/

ceto (triggers lenition)

1. although they are
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 18^d14

     Ní airegdu a persan-som ol·daas persan na n‑abstal olchene, ceto thoísegu i n‑iriss.

     Their persons are not more eminent than the persons of the rest of the apostles, though they are prior in faith.

     (literally, “Their person is not … than the person of …”)

• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909] D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 793, page 484; reprinted 2017