ceint

English

Etymology

See cincture.

Noun

ceint (plural ceints)

1. (obsolete) a girdle

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ceint”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• centi-, cetin

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French

Etymology

From Old French ceint, from Latin cinctus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃/

Verb

ceint (feminine ceinte, masculine plural ceints, feminine plural ceintes)

1. past participle of ceindre
2. third-person singular present indicative of ceindre

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Irish

Etymology

From English cent.

Noun

ceint m (genitive singular ceint, nominative plural ceinteanna)

1. (money) (American) cent

Declension

Declension of ceint

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative ceint ceinteanna Vocative a cheint a cheinteanna Genitive ceint ceinteanna Dative ceint ceinteanna

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an ceint na ceinteanna Genitive an cheint na gceinteanna Dative leis an gceint don cheint leis na ceinteanna

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
ceint	cheint	gceint
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “ceint”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

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Old French

Noun

ceint oblique singular, m (oblique plural ceinz or ceintz, nominative singular ceinz or ceintz, nominative plural ceint)

1. Alternative form of cent