cette

See also: Cette

French

Alternative forms

• ceste (obsolete)
• cête (obsolete)
• c’tte (popular)

Etymology

From Old French ceste, from Vulgar Latin *eccu ista, from Latin eccum ista, from iste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛt/

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Pronoun

cette f

1. feminine singular of ce

Related terms

• cet
• ce

Further reading

• “cette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈket.te/, [ˈkɛt̪ːɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃet.te/, [ˈt͡ʃɛt̪ːe]

Verb

(deprecated template usage) cette

1. second-person plural present active imperative of cedo

References

• “cette”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cette in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.