cena

See also: Cena, cená, cenà, cenâ, cenā, ceną, ċena, and cé na

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *cěna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kainā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛna/

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• Rhymes: -ɛna

Noun

cena f

1. price
2. prize

Related terms

• ocenit

Further reading

• Template:R:PSJC
• Template:R:SSJC

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin cēna, from Proto-Italic *kert(e)snā, from Proto-Indo-European *kert-s-nh₂ (“portion”), from *ker-, *sker-. Compare Spanish cena and Portuguese ceia.

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: cé‧na

Noun

cena f (plural cene)

1. dinner (evening meal)

Derived terms

• cenare
• cenata
• cenerella
• cenetta
• cenettina
• cenina
• cenino
• cenona
• cenone
• cenuccia
• L'Ultima Cena

 

Verb

cena

1. inflection of cenare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

See also

• colazione
• pranzo

Anagrams

• acne
• cane

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kert(e)snā (compare Umbrian śesna, Oscan kersnu), from Proto-Indo-European *kert-s-nh₂ (“portion”), from root , from *(s)ker- (compare Lithuanian kérti, Armenian քերթել (kʻertʻel, “to skin”), Sanskrit कृन्तति (kṛntáti, “he cuts (in pieces)”)). Related to cortex, scortum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkeː.na/, [ˈkeːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.na/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːnä]

Noun

cēna f (genitive cēnae); first declension

1. dinner
2. (law, historical) gwestva, a duty levied by Welsh kings twice a year upon the free men of their kingdom

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cēna	cēnae
Genitive	cēnae	cēnārum
Dative	cēnae	cēnīs
Accusative	cēnam	cēnās
Ablative	cēnā	cēnīs
Vocative	cēna	cēnae

Derived terms

• antecēnium
• cēnāculum
• cēnāticus
• cēnō
• cēnula
• concēna
• domicēnium

 

Related terms

• cēnācellum
• cēnāculāria
• cēnāculārium
• cēnāculārius
• cēnāculātus
• cēnāssō
• cēnāticum
• cēnātiō
• cēnātiuncula
• cēnātor
• cēnātōria
• cēnātōrium
• cēnātōrius
• cēnāturiō
• cēnātus
• cēnitō
• concēnātiō
• incēnātus
• incēnō
• percēnō
• succēnō

 

Descendants

• Aromanian: tsinã
• Catalan: cena
• Dalmatian: caina
• French: cène
• Friulian: cene
• Italian: cena
• Occitan: cena
• Old Galician-Portuguese: cẽa
  • Galician: cea
  • Portuguese: ceia
• Piedmontese: sin-a, sen-a
• Romanian: cină
• Romansch: tschaina
• Sardinian: chena, cena
• Sicilian: cena
• Spanish: cena
• Venetian: sena, çéna, ẑena

References

• “cena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cena”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cena in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the main dish: caput cenae (Fin. 2. 8. 25)
    
  • to invite some one to dinner: aliquem vocare, invitare ad cenam
    
  • to accept an invitiation to dinner: promittere (ad cenam) (Off. 3. 14. 58)
    
  • during dinner; at table: inter cenam, inter epulas
    
  • to invite oneself to some one's house for dinner: condicere alicui (ad cenam)
    
  • to welcome some one to one's table: adhibere aliquem cenae or ad cenam, convivio or in convivium
    
  • to set a repast before a person: cenam alicui apponere
    
• “cena”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cena”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) cēnā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cēnō

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Latvian

Etymology

Borrowed from Slavic.

Noun

cena f (4th declension)

1. price

Declension

Declension of cena (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	cena	cenas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	cenu	cenas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	cenas	cenu
dative (datīvs)	cenai	cenām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	cenu	cenām
locative (lokatīvs)	cenā	cenās
vocative (vokatīvs)	cena	cenas

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Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *cěna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kainā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂, from *kʷey- (“to pay”), whence English pain and penalty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛ.na/

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Noun

cena f

1. price

Declension

Declension of cena

	singular	plural
nominative	cena	ceny
genitive	ceny	cen
dative	cenie	cenom
accusative	cenę	ceny
instrumental	ceną	cenami
locative	cenie	cenach
vocative	ceno	ceny

Related terms

• (verbs) cenić, doceniać, oceniać, wyceniać
• (nouns) cennik, ocena, przecena, wycena
• (adjectives) cenny, cenowy, drogocenny

Further reading

• Template:R:PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin scaena.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.nɐ/

Noun

cena f (plural cenas)

1. scene
2. stage

   Synonym: palco

   em cena ― on stage

3. (Portugal, informal) thing

   Synonyms: coisa, troço, treco, negócio, bagulho, bagaça, trem, pira, bang

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cena.

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian) cijéna

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *cěna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kainā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tsěːna/
• Hyphenation: ce‧na

Noun

céna f (Cyrillic spelling це́на)

1. price
2. value, worth

Declension

Declension of cena

	singular	plural
nominative	cena	cene
genitive	cene	cena
dative	ceni	cenama
accusative	cenu	cene
vocative	ceno	cene
locative	ceni	cenama
instrumental	cenom	cenama

Derived terms

• cijeniti/ceniti

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Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *cěna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kainā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛna/

Noun

cena f (genitive singular ceny, nominative plural ceny, genitive plural cien, declension pattern of žena)

1. price

Declension

Declension of cena

	singular	plural
nominative	cena	ceny
genitive	ceny	cien
dative	cene	cenám
accusative	cenu	ceny
locative	cene	cenách
instrumental	cenou	cenami

Derived terms

• cenový
• cenovo, cenove

Further reading

• “cena”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *cěna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kainā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sèːna/

Noun

cẹ́na f

1. price (cost required to gain possession of something)

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	céna
gen. sing.	céne
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	céna	céni	céne
genitive (rodȋlnik)	céne	cén	cén
dative (dajȃlnik)	céni	cénama	cénam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	céno	céni	céne
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	céni	cénah	cénah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	céno	cénama	cénami

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin cēna, from Proto-Italic *kert(e)snā, from Proto-Indo-European *kert-s-nh₂ (“portion”), from *ker-, *sker-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθena/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsena/

Noun

cena f (plural cenas)

1. supper, dinner

Derived terms

• cenar

Verb

cena

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of cenar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of cenar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of cenar.

Further reading

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