ciel

See also: cieľ, ĉiel, and -ciel

English

Verb

ciel (third-person singular simple present ciels, present participle cieling, simple past and past participle cieled)

1. Alternative form of ceil

Anagrams

• -icle, Celi, ICLE, ILEC, Icel., ceil, lice

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French

Etymology

From Old French ciel, from Latin caelum, from Proto-Italic *kailom, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂i-lom (“whole”), from *keh₂i-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sjɛl/

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Noun

ciel m (plural cieux or ciels)

1. sky
2. heaven

   On croyait au ciel. ― We believed in heaven.

Derived terms

• à ciel ouvert

Related terms

• céleste

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: syèl
• → English: ceil

Noun

ciel m (plural ciels)

1. canopy (of a bed, etc.)

Interjection

ciel

1. heavens!

Further reading

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

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Italian

Noun

ciel m

1. Apocopic form of cielo

Anagrams

• celi, Cile, elci

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Norman

Etymology

From Old French ciel, from Latin caelum.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey):

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Noun

ciel m (plural cieux)

1. (Jersey) sky

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Old French

Alternative forms

• cel

Etymology

From Latin caelum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡si̯el/

Noun

ciel oblique singular, m (oblique plural cieus or ciex or ciels, nominative singular cieus or ciex or ciels, nominative plural ciel)

1. heaven

Descendants

• Bourguignon: cier
• French: ciel
  • Haitian Creole: syèl
  • → English: ceil
• Norman: ciel, cyil, cyi, syel
• Walloon: cir

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Volapük

Noun

ciel (nominative plural ciels)

1. gill

Declension

declension of ciel

	singular	plural
nominative	ciel	ciels
genitive	ciela	cielas
dative	ciele	cieles
accusative	cieli	cielis
vocative 1	o ciel!	o ciels!
predicative 2	cielu	cielus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only