cem

See also: Cem, cèm, čem, çem, and Çem

English

Etymology

Shortening.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛm

Noun

cem (plural cems)

1. (Britain, Australia, colloquial) cemetery

   I'm planning a trip to the cem next week to gather some genealogical information.

See also

• crem

Anagrams

• CME, ECM, EMC, E=mc², MEC, mec

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Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛm/

Preposition

cem

1. next to

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Portuguese

Portuguese cardinal numbers

<  99	100	101  >
Cardinal : cem     Ordinal : centésimo
Portuguese Wikipedia article on cem

Alternative forms

• cento (see usage notes)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cen, from cento, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Brazil) /ˈsẽj̃/, [ˈsẽɪ̯̃]

 

• IPA^(key): (Portugal) /ˈsɐ̃j̃/, [ˈsɐ̃ɪ̯̃]

• IPA^(key): (Lisbon) /ˈsɐ̃j̃/, [ˈsɐ̃ɪ̯̃]
• IPA^(key): (non-Lisbon Portugal) /ˈsẽj̃/, [ˈsẽɪ̯̃]

• Hyphenation: cem
• Homophone: sem

Adjective

cem m or f

1. one hundred (100)

   Cem pessoas vieram.

   One hundred people came.

Noun

cem m (plural cem)

1. a value of one hundred

   Tirei um cem na prova.

   I got a [score of] one hundred on the test.

2. (uncommon) a figure representing one hundred (such as 100 or C)

   Está vendo aquele cem?

   Are you seeing that 100?

Usage notes

As a numeral, cem is only used for adjectival 100. For the corresponding noun (100 units of something), and for compounds (101, 102, etc.) cento is used instead.

See also

• duzentos m (“two hundred”), duzentas f
• trezentos m (“three hundred”), trezentas f
• quatrocentos m (“four hundred”), quatrocentas f
• quinhentos m (“five hundred”), quinhentas f
• seiscentos m (“six hundred”), seiscentas f
• setecentos m (“seven hundred”), setecentas f
• oitocentos m (“eight hundred”), oitocentas f
• novecentos m (“nine hundred”), novecentas f

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Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃem/

Noun

cem (nominative plural cems)

1. room

Declension

declension of cem

	singular	plural
nominative	cem	cems
genitive	cema	cemas
dative	ceme	cemes
accusative	cemi	cemis
vocative 1	o cem!	o cems!
predicative 2	cemu	cemus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms

• fidacem