cerno

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈsɛr.nu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈsɛr.no]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈsɛɾ.no]

cerno

1. first-person singular present indicative of cerndre

Perhaps from Suevic, from Proto-Germanic *kernô (“kernel”). Compare Icelandic, Faroese, Old Norse kjarni (“kernel, core”).

cerno m (plural cernos)

1. Alternative form of cerna (“kernel, core; sap; heartwood, duramen; pith”)
   • 1459, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 441:

     Fernán Gonçalues de Lamella se obrigou de dar en nome do conçello de çidade d'Ourense çento táboas et quarenta madeyros en esta maneyra que se sige: las táboas que aja cada hua des pees do dito Fernán Garçía et de la anchura, segundo está aquí asinallada de maao a maao, et an de auer de gordo dous dedos et que sejan dereytas e chaas e boas e merchinas sen furados, et os quarenta madeyros an de seer en esta maneyra que se sige: de ancho como está asinallado de maao en maao et de alto a terçeera maao, et an de auer de longo dose pees ou mays, et destes madeyros ha de auer quatro que an de auer des et oyto pees en longo ou mays, se mays poderen auer, et estes madeyros an de seer de çerno de carballo et as táboas de castaño

     Fernán Gonzalvez de Lamela committed himself to give, in the name of the city council of Ourense, a hundred boards and forty planks, in this way: each one of the boards must be ten feet, of this Fernán García, in long; and in width as it is here consigned from hand to hand; and they should be two inches in thickness; and they should be straight and level and good without holes. And the forty planks must be made in this way: in width as it is consigned, from hand to hand, in high to the third hand; and they must have twelve feet or more in long; and of these planks four must be eighteen feet or more in long, as long as they can be made; and these planks must be made in oak heartwood, and the boards in chestnut.

cerno (feminine cerna, masculine plural cernos, feminine plural cernas)

1. steady, firm, upright
2. hard
3. inner

• “çerno” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “cerno” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cerno” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cerno” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

cerno

1. first-person singular present indicative of cernere

• necro-

From Proto-Italic *krinō, from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to sieve”).

Cognate with Ancient Greek κρίνω (krínō), English ridder, riddle (“sieve”), and possibly English rinse.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈker.noː/, [ˈkɛrnoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃer.no/, [ˈt͡ʃɛrno]

cernō (present infinitive cernere, perfect active crēvī, supine crētum); third conjugation

1. to distinguish, divide, separate, sift

   Synonyms: aufero, eripio, diripio, excludo, distraho, tollo

2. to perceive, see

   Synonyms: percipiō, sentiō, audiō, videō, cōnspicor

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.671–672:

     nunc quoque, sē suprā nē quid nisi sīdera cernat,
     exiguum templī tēcta forāmen habent.

     Even now, so that he may see nothing except the stars above him,
     the roof of the temple has a tiny opening.
     (The ancient Romans believed that Terminus (god), protector of boundary stones, had refused to yield the ground of his own shrine – located inconveniently on the site where the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus was to be built. And that is why Jupiter's great temple honored the immovable will of Terminus by way of a sacred stone or altar with a clear sightline to the stars.)

3. to (intellectually) comprehend, discern, regard, understand

   Synonyms: agnōscō, cognōscō, inveniō, sentiō, cōnsciō, sapiō, sciō, nōscō, scīscō, intellegō, percipiō, discernō, inveniō, tongeō, audiō

   Antonyms: ignōrō, nesciō

4. to decide

   Synonyms: statuō, dēcernō, parō, cōnstituō, placeō

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “cĕrnĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 606

• “cerno”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cerno”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cerno in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• cerno in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to see clearly, distinctly: cernere et videre aliquid
    
  • the world of sense, the visible world: res quas oculis cernimus
    
  • it is evident from..: cernitur (in) aliqua re (not ex aliqua re)
    
  • to take possession of an inheritance: hereditatem adire, cernere