cé

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɛː]

cé n (indeclinable)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter C/c.

• “cé”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “cé”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

• IPA^(key): /se/
• Homophones: ces, cés, ses

cé m (plural cés)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter C/c.

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡seː]

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• Rhymes: -t͡seː

cé

1. The name of the Latin-script letter C/c.

• (Latin-script letter names) betű; a, á, bé, cé, csé, dé, dzé, dzsé, e, é, eff, gé, gyé, há, i, í, jé, ká, ell, ellipszilon / elly / ejj, emm, enn, enny, o, ó, ö, ő, pé, kú, err, ess, essz, té, tyé, u, ú, ü, ű, vé, dupla vé / vevé, iksz, ipszilon, zé, zsé. (See also: Latin script letters.)

• cé , redirecting to (2): c in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• cé, redirecting to c in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

• sé

• IPA^(key): /sjɛː/
• Rhymes: -ɛː
• Homophone: sé

cé n (genitive singular cés, nominative plural cé)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter C/c.

• IPA^(key): /ceː/

From Old Irish cía, from Proto-Celtic *kʷei (from which also Welsh pwy), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis.

• cia (obsolete)

cé (triggers h-prothesis of a following disjunctive pronoun é, í, iad; followed by a relative clause)

1. (interrogative) who?

   Cé hé?

   Who is he?

   Cé hí an bhean sin?

   Who is that woman?

   Cé a dhéanfaidh é?

   Who will do it?

Can be followed by a prepositional pronoun in the 3rd person singular masculine:

• Cé aige an fíon?

  Who has the wine?

• Cé dó ar thug tú é?

  Who did you give it to?

In this construction, it can also mean ‘what’:

• Cé air a bhfuil an leabhar?

  What is the book on?

• cén (“what, which? (singular)”)
• cé na (“what, which? (plural)”)
• cé acu (“which?”)
• cér, cérb (“who is?”)
• cér, cérbh (“who was?”)

From Old Irish cía (“although”).

• cidh, gidh, gidheadh

cé

1. Only used in cé go, cé gur, cé nach, and cé nár

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman kay, cail (modern French quai), from Gaulish cagiíum (“enclosure”), from Proto-Celtic *kagyom (“pen, enclosure”) (from which also Welsh cae (“hedge”)).

• céadh, céidh
• céibh (Cois Fharraige)

cé f (genitive singular cé, nominative plural céanna)

1. quay, wharf, pier

From Latin cē.

cé

1. The name of the Latin-script letter c/C.

• (Latin-script letter names) litir; á, bé, cé, dé, é, eif, gé, héis, í, jé, cá, eil, eim, ein, ó, pé, cú, ear, eas, té, ú, vé, wae, ex, yé, zae
• Note: The English names are also widely used by Irish speakers.

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cía (‘who’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 cía (‘although’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “céibe (‘quay’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cé”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 122
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “céaḋ (‘quay’)”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 122
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cé”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

cé m or f (invariable)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter C/c.

• (Latin-script letter names) lètra; a, bé, cé, dé, e, ëffe, ge, àcca / àca, i, i lóng, càpa, ëlle, èmme, ènne, o, pé, cu, ërre, ësse, té, u, vé, dópi vé / dópi vu / vu dópi, ics, i gréc / ìpsilon, zéta