ce

ce

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Chechen.

• enPR: sē, IPA^(key): /siː/

• Rhymes: -iː

• Homophones: C, sea, see

ce (plural ces)

1. Alternative form of cee (“the letter C”).
   • 2003, David Sacks, The Alphabet: Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet from A to Z, page 89:

     [T]hat spelling, but not the pronunciation, supplies our own name for the letter: “ce” or “cee.”

• E.C., EC, ec.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sɛ/

ce

1. alternative form of pse (“why”)

• IPA^(key): [d͡ʒeː]

ce

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

• (Latin-script letter names) hərf; a, be, ce, çe, de, e, ə, fe, ge, ğe, he / haş, xe / iks, ı, i, je, ke / ka, qe / kü, el, em, en, o, ö, pe, er, se, şe, te, u, ü, ve, ye / iqrek, ze / zet

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈse]
• Rhymes: -e

ce f (plural ces)

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

• ce trencada

Central Nahuatl cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : ce     Ordinal : inic ce

Cognate to Classical Nahuatl ce

ce

1. one.

• çu
• çte
• çtu

Inherited from Old French cel, from Vulgar Latin *ecce ille.

• IPA^(key): /sə/

ce

1. (Troyen) this, that

• Daunay, Jean (1998), Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)‎^[2] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
• Baudoin, Alphonse (1885), Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux‎^[3] (in French), Troyes

Classical Nahuatl numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: cē     Ordinal: ic cē, achto     Adverbial: cencān, ceppa, achtopa     Distributive: cēcen, cehcen

• çe, cec, ced, sed (obsolete spelling)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): [seː]

cē

1. (it is) one in number.
   • 1555, Alonso de Molina, Aqui comienca vn vocabulario en la lengua castellana y mexicana, f. 250r:

     ¶Vno o vna.Ce.

     ¶ One. Ce.

   • 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 118v. col. 1:

     ¶ Vno o vna. Ce.

     ¶ One. Ce.

   • Idem, f. 15r. col. 1.

     C E.vno o vna, / vel,centetl.

     C E. one. also centetl.

• The combing form of ce is cem- (or cen- before non-labial consonants and -cen in word-final position).

• Alonso de Molina (1571), Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, Editorial Porrúa, pages 118v, 15r
• Wright, David (2016), Lectura del Náhuatl, rev. ed. edition, Ciudad de México: Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas, page 180

Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : ce     Ordinal : achtohui

Cognate to Classical Nahuatl ce

ce

1. one.

• IPA^(key): /sə/
• (Paris) IPA^(key): /sø/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Rhymes: -ə
• Homophone: se

Inherited from Middle French, from Old French cel, cil, from Vulgar Latin *ecce ille. See also celui, derived from the oblique cases of the same.

The inflected forms continue Old French cest, cist, from Vulgar Latin *ecce iste.

ce m (before a vowel sound cet, feminine cette, plural ces)

1. this, that

To distinguish between the this and that senses, one may use the particles -ci and -là, respectively. See also celui-ci and celui-là, or ceci and cela.

Inherited from Old French ço, from Late Latin ecce hoc.

• c' (before the vowels /ɛ/, /y/)
• ç'^[1] (dated, before the vowel /a/)

ce m or f (plural ce)

1. (subject of être, with predicative adjectives or relative clauses, singular only) it, this, that (see § Usage notes, below)

   C'est beau ! ― It is beautiful!

   est-ce que...? ― forms yes–no questions (literally, “is it that...?”)

   ce dont je parlais ― that which I was speaking of

   C'eût été avec plaisir, mais... ― It would have been with pleasure, but...

   C'eût été dommage... ― It would have been a pity...

2. (subject of être, with predicate nouns) he, she, it, this, that

   C'est un/une célébrité. ― He/she is a celebrity.

   Ce sont des célébrités. ― These are celebrities.

   Ce sont des gens bien. ― These are good people.

   • 1897, Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac:

     C'est un roc ! ... c'est un pic ! ... c'est un cap ! Que dis-je, c'est un cap ? ... C'est une péninsule !

     It's a rock! ... it's a peak! ... it's a cape! What am I saying, a cape? ... It's a peninsula!

3. (literary, subject of être with an intervening modal verb) it, this, that

   ce peuvent être... ― these may be...

   Ce doit être un imposteur. ― He must be an impostor.

   • 1866, Guérineau de Boisvillette, Ce qu'il a laissé!‎^[4], page 56:

     [...] ce paraissent être encore là des points à noter [...]

     […] these seem to be more points worth noting […]

4. (archaic, subject of verbs other than être) it, this, that

   ce semble ― it seems

(1): To convey the plural with a predicative adjective, one must use ils m or elles f (“they”):

Ils/Elles sont beaux/belles ! ― They are beautiful!

And to convey the plural with a relative clause, one must use ceux m or celles f (plural forms of celui m and celle f):

ceux/celles que... ― those which...

ceux/celles qui... ― those who/that...

ceux/celles dont je parlais... ― those which I was speaking of...

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

From Latin quid. Compare Italian che, Venetan ché, Romanian ce.

ce

1. what

• che

• cê (reintegrationist)

• Rhymes: -e

ce m (plural ces)

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

• (Latin-script letter names) letra; a, be, ce, de, e, efe, gue, hache, i, ele, eme, ene, eñe, o, pe, que, erre, ese, te, u, uve, xe, ceta / zeta

• “ce”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

• ṣié, ṣé (Nigeria)

Cognates include Fon cé

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃé/

cé (Benin)

1. my (first-person singular possessive adjective)

From c +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): /t͡se/, /t͡sɛ/

ce (plural ce-i)

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

• Latin script letter names: literi: a · be · ce · che · de · e · fe · ge · he · i · je · ke · le · me · ne · o · pe · que · re · se · she · te · u · ve · we · xe · ye · ze ^[edit]

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃe/, [t͡ʃe]

cé (plural ce-ce)

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

• si (Standard Malay)

• (Latin-script letter names) huruf; a, be, ce, de, e, ef, ge, ha, i, je, ka, el, em, en, o, pe, ki, er, es, te, u, ve, we, eks, ye, zet

• “ce”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃe/^°[1]
• Hyphenation: ce

ce

1. alternative form of ci (“us”)

• Used when followed by a third-person direct object proclitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).

ce

1. alternative form of ci
2. (Romanesco) reinforcing particle, "do"

   Voi ce lo sapete...

   Ye do know it...

• Used when followed by a third-person direct object proclitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).

• ce¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• ci¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe/^*[1]
• Rhymes: -e
• Hyphenation: cé

ce f (invariable)

1. (archaic or regional) alternative form of ci (“the letter cee”)

• ce² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

From Ancient Greek καί (kaí).

ce

1. and

Derived from Etruscan. Etruscan names of stops were the stop followed by /eː/.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkeː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛː]

cē f (indeclinable)

1. The name of the letter C.

• (Latin-script letter names) littera; ā, bē, cē, dē, ē, ef, gē, hā / *acca, ī, kā, el, em, en, ō, pē, kū, er, es, tē, ū, ix / īx / ex, ȳ / ī graeca / ȳpsīlon, zēta

• “ce”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ce”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ce”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Arthur E. Gordon, The Letter Names of the Latin Alphabet (University of California Press, 1973; volume 9 of University of California Publications: Classical Studies), part III: “Summary of the Ancient Evidence”, page 32: "Clearly there is no question or doubt about the names of the vowels A, E, I, O, U. They are simply long A, long E, etc. (ā, ē, ī, ō, ū). Nor is there any uncertainty with respect to the six mutes B, C, D, G, P, T. Their names are bē, cē, dē, gē, pē, tē (each with a long E). Or about H, K, and Q: they are hā, kā, kū—each, again, with a long vowel sound."

• IPA^(key): /t͡see/

ce

1. to eat (of larger foods that require more than one bite)

• Amalia L. Robinson (2022), “Standard Sentential Negation in Basic Declarative Utterances in Hnaring Lutuv”, in Indiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages and Cultures‎^[5], volume 3, number 1

ce

1. nonstandard spelling of cè
2. nonstandard spelling of cê̄

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

• che (Unified Alphabet)

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe/

ce (Raguileo spelling)

1. person
2. people

• Mapuce

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

ce

1. alternative form of see (“sea”)

ce

1. alternative form of see (“see”)

ce m (feminine singular ceste, masculine and feminine plural ces, masculine singular before a vowel cest)

1. this (the one in question)
   • 1571, Pedro Díaz, Dallier, Nouueaux advertissemens trescertains venus du paÿs des Indes Meridionales […] page 5

     Mais considerant que les Chrestiens nouvellement faits en ce pays, estoient en si grand nombre que nous ne les pouvions visiter

     But considering that the newly made Christians in this country were so numerous that we couldn't visit all of them

Akin to Italian ci; see there for more.

• IPA^(key): /(t)ʃe/
• Rhymes: -e

ce (adverbial)

1. there (at a place)

ce f (plural ces)

1. cee (the letter c)

• IPA^(key): /kʲe/

ce

1. alternative form of cía

ce

1. alternative form of cía
   • 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. 10^c21

     Ba torad sa⟨í⟩thir dúun in chrud so ce du·melmis cech túari et ce du·gnemmis a ndu·gníat ar céli, act ní bad nertad na mbráithre et frescsiu fochricce as móo.

     It would be a fruit of our labor in this way if we consumed every food and if we did what our fellows do, but it would not be a strengthening of the brothers and a hope of a greater reward.

   • 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. 33^a15

     Fomnid-si, a phopul núíednissi, ar ce dud·rónath ní di maith fri maccu Israhél…

     Take heed, O people of the New Testament, for although some good has been done to the children of Israel…

   • 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. 34^a4

     ɔrabad cech bráthair post alium .i. is huisse ce ru·samaltar fri Críst

     so that each brother should be after the other, i.e. it is right that he be compared to Christ

C.f. Classical Nahuatl cē.

• IPA^(key): /ˈse/

ce

1. one

• Boas, Franz (July 1917), “El Dialecto mexicano de Pochutla, Oaxaca”, in International Journal of American Linguistics (in Spanish), volume 1, number 1, →DOI, →JSTOR, pages 9–44
• Knab, Tim (July 1980), “When is a language really dead: The case of Pochutec”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 46, number 3, →DOI, →JSTOR, pages 230–233

Onomatopoeic.

• (Masovia):
  • (Near Masovian) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɛ]

• Audio:

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ce

1. (Near Masovian, often repeated) used to call

   Synonym: cieś

   Coordinate term: a ce

• Władysław Matlakowski (1891), “ce”, in “Zbiór wyrazów ludowych dawnej ziemi czerskiej”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności‎^[6], volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 372

• че (ce) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Inherited from Latin quid, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷid, compare *kʷís.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃe/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -e

ce

1. what

   Ce vrei să faci?

   What do you want to do?

• ci

• IPA^(key): /ˈθe/ [ˈθe] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /ˈse/ [ˈse] (Latin America, Philippines)

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: ce
• Homophones: se, (Latin America) sé

ce f (plural ces)

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

• “ce”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• se

Borrowed from Spanish ce, the Spanish name of the letter C / c.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈse/ [ˈsɛ]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: ce

ce (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒ)

1. (historical) the name of the Latin script letter C/c, in the Abecedario

   Synonym: (in the Filipino alphabet) si

ce (relative)

1. who

ce

1. if

Clipping of kuce, used colloquially and informally.

ce

1. (interrogative) who, what, which

ce

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

• (Latin-script letter names) harf; a, be, ce, çe, de, e, fe, ge, yumuşak ge, he, ı, i, je, ke, le, me, ne, o, ö, pe, re, se, şe, te, u, ü, ve, ye, ze

• IPA^(key): /keː/

ce f (plural ceau)

1. The name of the Latin script letter K/k.

• (Latin-script letter names) llythyren; a, bi, ec, èch, di, èdd, e, èf, èff, èg, eng, aetsh, i / i dot, je, ce, el, èll, em, en, o, pi, ffi, ciw, er, rhi, ès, ti, èth, u / u bedol / u gwpan, fi, w, ecs, y, sèd

This word cannot be mutated.

• Ce

ce

1. Title of respect, especially for men
   1. Mister
   2. Ms
   3. Miss

• → Chichewa: Che

• Ciyawo - English Dictionary: Dikishonale ja Ŵakulijiganya

Cognate with Koyraboro Senni cee (“foot”).

ce

1. foot, leg