ceto

See also: Ceto

Italian

Etymology

From Latin coetus (“union”).

Noun

ceto m (plural ceti)

1. (sociology, economy) class (in society)

   Synonym: rango

   il ceto medio ― middle class

Anagrams

• teco

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) cētō

1. dative/ablative singular of cētus

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

• cetu, cíato

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʲedo/

Contraction

ceto (triggers lenition)

1. Contraction of ce, cía (“although”) + it (“they are”).
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 18^d14

     Ní airegdu a persan-som ol·daas persan na n‑abstal olchene, ceto thoísegu i n‑iriss.

     Their persons are not more eminent than the persons of the rest of the apostles, though they are prior in faith.

     (literally, “Their person is not … than the person of …”)

Further reading

• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 793, page 484