cerne

See also: cerné and černé

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French [Term?], inherited from Latin circinus (“pair of compasses”); compare Romanian cearcăn.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sɛʁn/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

cerne m (plural cernes)

  1. dark bluish coloration around the eyes, periorbital dark circle
  2. dark circle around a lesion
  3. tree ring

Usage notes

This noun is often incorrectly considered as feminine.

Verb

cerne

  1. inflection of cerner:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Anagrams

Galician

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈθɛɾne̝/, (western) /ˈsɛɾne̝/

Noun

cerne m (plural cernes)

  1. Nonstandard form of cerna (“heartwood; core, kernel”).

Adjective

cerne m or f (plural cernes)

  1. Nonstandard form of cerno (“steady, firm, upright; hard”).

References
  • “çerna” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “çerno” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “cerne” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “cerne” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Italian

Verb

cerne

  1. third-person singular present indicative of cernere

Latin

Verb

cerne

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of cernō

Portuguese

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsɛʁ.ni/ [ˈsɛɦ.ni]

Noun

cerne m (plural cernes)

  1. heartwood (wood nearer the heart of a stem)
    Synonym: durame
  2. kernel (core or essence of an object or system)
  3. (figurative) main (the most important part of something)

Verb

cerne

  1. inflection of cernir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cernere, present active infinitive of cernō, from Proto-Italic *krinō, from Proto-Indo-European *krey-.

Pronunciation
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Verb

a cerne (third-person singular present cerne, past participle cernut) 3rd conj.

  1. to sift
  2. to discern
    Synonym: distinge
  3. to screen, sort

Conjugation
    conjugation of cerne (third conjugation, past participle in -ut)
infinitive a cerne
gerund cernând
past participle cernut
number singular plural
person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present cern cerni cerne cernem cerneți cern
imperfect cerneam cerneai cernea cerneam cerneați cerneau
simple perfect cernui cernuși cernu cernurăm cernurăți cernură
pluperfect cernusem cernuseși cernuse cernuserăm cernuserăți cernuseră
subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present să cern să cerni să cearnă să cernem să cerneți să cearnă
imperative — tu — — voi —
affirmative cerne cerneți
negative nu cerne nu cerneți

Derived terms
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