cenar

See also: cé nár

Italian

Verb

cenar (apocopated)

1. apocopic form of cenare

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cēnāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θeˈnaɾ/ [θeˈnaɾ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /seˈnaɾ/ [seˈnaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ce‧nar

Verb

cenar (first-person singular present ceno, first-person singular preterite cené, past participle cenado)

1. to dine; to have supper; to have a lavish meal

Conjugation

    Conjugation of cenar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			cenar
gerund			cenando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		cenado		cenada
		plural		cenados		cenadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	ceno	cenastú cenásvos	cena	cenamos	cenáis	cenan
	imperfect	cenaba	cenabas	cenaba	cenábamos	cenabais	cenaban
	preterite	cené	cenaste	cenó	cenamos	cenasteis	cenaron
	future	cenaré	cenarás	cenará	cenaremos	cenaréis	cenarán
	conditional	cenaría	cenarías	cenaría	cenaríamos	cenaríais	cenarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	cene	cenestú cenésvos2	cene	cenemos	cenéis	cenen
	imperfect (ra)	cenara	cenaras	cenara	cenáramos	cenarais	cenaran
	imperfect (se)	cenase	cenases	cenase	cenásemos	cenaseis	cenasen
	future1	cenare	cenares	cenare	cenáremos	cenareis	cenaren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		cenatú cenávos	cene	cenemos	cenad	cenen
	negative		no cenes	no cene	no cenemos	no cenéis	no cenen

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

Derived terms

• cenador

Related terms

• cena

Further reading

• “cenar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Anagrams

• carne, crean, nacer, renca