cera

See also: Cera, ceră, c'era, and CERA

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin cēra.

Noun

cera f (plural ceres)

1. wax

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin cēra.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ɾa/
• Rhymes: -eɾa

Noun

cera f (plural ceres)

1. wax

Derived terms

• cera d'abella
• cera de carnauba
• cera de les orelles
• cera perduda
• cerer
• cerós
• encerar

 

Related terms

• ceri
• cerífer
• cerilla
• cerot
• cerumen
• ciri

 

Further reading

• “cera” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cera, from Latin cēra.

Noun

cera f (plural ceras)

1. wax

Further reading

• “cera” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin cēra (“wax”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.ra/
• Rhymes: -era
• Hyphenation: cé‧ra

Noun

cera f (plural cere)

1. wax
2. complexion

Derived terms

• cera bianca
• cera d'api (“beeswax”)
• cera da scarpe
• cera di carnauba
• cera di lignite
• cera giapponese
• ceralacca
• cera molle
• cera persa
• cera vegetale
• cera vergine
• ceroso (“waxy”)

 

Anagrams

• Arce, acre, care, crea, reca

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Latin

Etymology 1

A foreign loan from a substrate language, cognate with Ancient Greek κηρός (kērós) and Albanian qiri, and possibly also with Lithuanian korys and Latvian kāre.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkeː.ra/, [ˈkeːrä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.ra/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːrä]

Noun

cēra f (genitive cērae); first declension

1. wax, beeswax, honeycomb
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.747-748:

     audit in exēsa strīdōrem exāminis ulmō,
     aspicit et cērās dissimulatque senex

     [Silenus] hears the buzzing of a swarm in a hollowed-out elm tree,
     and the old man can see the honeycombs, yet he dissimulates [pretends as if he has found nothing].
     (Ovid's word play relates the ‘‘exesus’’ – the tree's ‘‘having been consumed’’ – with the ‘‘examen’’ or swarm, which Silenus mistakenly assumes are bees; instead, moments later when he looks inside the tree he is attacked by hornets.)

2. a wax seal
3. a wax image

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cēra	cērae
Genitive	cērae	cērārum
Dative	cērae	cērīs
Accusative	cēram	cērās
Ablative	cērā	cērīs
Vocative	cēra	cērae

Derived terms

• cērārius
• cērātum
• cēreus
• cērificō
• cērō
• cēroferārius
• cērōsus
• cērula
• prīmicērius
• secundicērius

 

Descendants

• Aromanian: tsearã, tsiare
• Asturian: cera
• → Proto-Brythonic: *kuɨr
  • Breton: koar
  • Welsh: cwyr
• Catalan: cera
• Dalmatian: caira
• English: cere
• French: cire
• Friulian: cere
• Galician: cera
• → Old Irish: céir
  • Irish: céir
  • Scottish Gaelic: cèir
• Italian: cera
• Norman: chithe (Jersey)
• Occitan: cera
• Piedmontese: sira
• Portuguese: cera
• Romanian: ceară
• Romansch: tschaira, tschera, tscheira
• Sardinian: chera, cera, cera
• Sicilian: cira
• Spanish: cera
• Venetian: sera, siera, çera, zhera

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkeː.raː/, [ˈkeːräː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.ra/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːrä]

Verb

cērā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cērō

References

• “cera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cera 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)
• cera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “cera”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cera”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Occitan

Etymology

From Latin cēra.

Pronunciation

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Noun

cera f (plural ceras)

1. wax

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Polish

Etymology

From cyra, from German Zier, from Middle High German ziere, from Old High German ziari.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛ.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Syllabification: ce‧ra

Noun

cera f

1. complexion

Declension

Declension of cera

	singular	plural
nominative	cera	cery
genitive	cery	cer
dative	cerze	cerom
accusative	cerę	cery
instrumental	cerą	cerami
locative	cerze	cerach
vocative	cero	cery

Further reading

• cera in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• cera in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cera (“wax”), from Latin cēra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.ɾɐ/

• Rhymes: -eɾɐ
• Hyphenation: ce‧ra

Noun

cera f (plural ceras)

1. wax (oily, water-resistant substance)
2. earwax, cerumen

Related terms

• cerume

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Silesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Czech céra, dcera, from Old Czech dci, from Proto-Slavic *dъ̏ťi, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *duktḗ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr.

Noun

cera f

1. daughter

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin cēra (“wax”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθeɾa/, [ˈθe.ɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈseɾa/, [ˈse.ɾa]

• Audio (Colombia)

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• Rhymes: -eɾa

Noun

cera f (plural ceras)

1. wax
2. (Spain) crayon

   Synonyms: (Colombia, Venezuela, Canary Islands) creyón, (Argentina, Guatemala, Honduras, Uruguay) crayón, (Cuba, Mexico, Peru) crayola, (Spain) lápiz de cera

Derived terms

• blanco como la cera

Related terms

• cerilla
• cerillo
• ceroso
• cerumen
• encerar

 

Further reading

• “cera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Anagrams

• acre, arce, crea, caer