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Inherited from Latin cēna.

cena f (plural cenes)

  1. (Christianity, often capitalized) ellipsis of Santa Cena; Last Supper
  2. (archaic) synonym of sopar (“supper”)

Inherited from Old Czech cěna, from Proto-Slavic *cěna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kainā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂.

cena f

  1. price
  2. prize

Inherited from Classical Latin cēna, from Old Latin cesna, from Proto-Italic *kertsnā, from Proto-Indo-European *kért-sneh₂ (“portion”), derived from the root *(s)kert- (“to cut”), from *(s)ker-

cena f (plural ceni)

  1. dinner

  2. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mauro Maxia (2012), Fonetica storica del gallurese e delle altre varietà sardocorse (in Sassarese), Editrice Taphros, →ISBN

Inherited from Latin cēna, from Proto-Italic *kertsnā, from Proto-Indo-European *kért-s-nh₂ (“portion”), from *ker-, *sker-. Compare Spanish cena, Portuguese ceia and Romanian cină.

cena f (plural cene)

  1. dinner (evening meal)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cena

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

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Kashubian cena

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *cěna.

cena f

  1. price (cost required to gain possession of something)
    Synonym: priz
  2. value (meaning of something)

From Old Latin cesna, from Proto-Italic *kertsnā (compare Umbrian śesna, Oscan kersnu), from Proto-Indo-European *kért-sneh₂ (“portion”), from root *(s)kert- (“to cut”), from *(s)ker- (compare Lithuanian kérti, Armenian քերթել (kʻertʻel, “to skin”), Sanskrit कृन्तति (kṛntáti, “he cuts (in pieces)”)).[1] Related to cortex, scortum.

cēna f (genitive cēnae); first declension

  1. dinner, supper, principal meal (anciently taken at noon, afterwards later)
  2. (Medieval Latin, law, historical) gwestva (a duty levied by Welsh kings twice a year upon the free men of their kingdom)

First-declension noun.

Borrowings

cēnā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of cēnō
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 106

Borrowed from Slavic *cěna.

cȩna f (4th declension)

  1. price

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cēna

  1. inflection of cēne:
    1. strong feminine nominative/accusative plural
    2. weak masculine nominative singular

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ċēna

  1. genitive plural of ċēn

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Old Polish cena

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *cěna. The shift from cana to cena was a generalization of forms such as w cenie, cenić, etc. First attested in the 15th century.

cena f

  1. (attested in Greater Poland) price, value

See cyna.

cena f

  1. alternative form of cyna

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *cěna. First attested in 1473.

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cena f

  1. price (cost required to gain possession of something)
  2. value (meaning of something)

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Old Polish cena

Polish cena

Inherited from Old Polish cena.

cena f

  1. price (cost required to gain possession of something)
  2. value (meaning of something)
    Synonym: wartość
  3. (Middle Polish, mathematics) value; size (size of a number; property of measurability)
    Synonym: wielkość

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), cena is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 15 times in scientific texts, 25 times in news, 58 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 12 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 114 times, making it the 531st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

See cyna.

cena f

  1. (Central Greater Poland, Oborniki) alternative form of cyna

  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “cena”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 42

Learned borrowing from Latin sc(a)ena.

cena f (plural cenas)

  1. scene (location of an event that attracts attention)
  2. (theater, film, television, radio) scene (part of a dramatic work)
  3. (theater) stage
    Synonym: palco
    em cena ― on stage
  4. scene (combination of objects or events in view or happening at a given moment at a particular place)
    • 2008 [1976], Sonia Coutinho, “Essas tardes de maio”, in Uma certa felicidade, 3rd edition, Rio de Janeiro: 7Letras, →ISBN, page 70:
      Sim, o tempo passando desfoca devagar as lentes da memória, embala-nos pouco a pouco, ao sabor dos incidentes cotidianos, deixo a firma, arranjo outro emprego e outro(s) homem(ns), as cenas antigas vão perdendo seu brilho, mas ainda lembro Rodrigo.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  5. (informal) scene (vague group of people with a uniting interest)
    • 2018 December 17, Claudia Beatriz Iaragnoit Villela, “Os 20 anos da Pulsação”, Claudia Bia, in O Município‎[9], Brusque, archived from the original on 15 November 2024:
      Mais uma comemoração de ano redondo marcando este 2018. Desta vez, são os 20 anos da banda Pulsação, aquela que, alguns anos depois, preencheu o espaço vazio deixado pela cena do rock dos anos 80 de Brusque […]
      Another comemoration with a round-number year has marked 2018. This time, it's the 20 years of the Pulsação band, the one that, some years later, filled the empty space left by 80's rock scene in Brusque.
  6. (Portugal, informal) thing
    Synonyms: coisa, (Brazil) negócio

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cena.

cena f (plural ceni)

  1. (dialectal) alternative form of zena (“dinner”)

  2. ^ Mauro Maxia (2012), Fonetica storica del gallurese e delle altre varietà sardocorse (in Sassarese), Editrice Taphros, →ISBN

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *cěna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kainā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂.

céna f (Cyrillic spelling це́на) (Ekavian)

  1. price
  2. value, worth

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Old Polish cena

Silesian cena

Inherited from Old Polish cena.

cena f

  1. price (cost required to gain possession of something)
    • 2018, Waldemar Szymczyk, editor, 9292‎[10], →ISBN, archived from the original on 12 November 2022, page 22:
      Na fejsbuku to wy mi ceny jajec abo masła niy łobniżycie.
      You all won't lower the price of eggs or butter for me on Facebook.

Inherited from Old Slovak cena, from Proto-Slavic *cěna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kainā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂.

cena f (relational adjective cenový)

  1. price
  2. value (meaning of something)
  3. reward, prize
  4. (sports) trophy; competition

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *cěna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kainā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂. First attested in the 16th century.

cẹ́na f

  1. price (cost required to gain possession of something)
Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing. céna
gen. sing. céne
singular dual plural
nominative(imenovȃlnik) céna céni céne
genitive(rodȋlnik) céne cén cén
dative(dajȃlnik) céni cénama cénam
accusative(tožȋlnik) céno céni céne
locative(mẹ̑stnik) céni cénah cénah
instrumental(orọ̑dnik) céno cénama cénami

Inherited from Latin cēna, from Proto-Italic *kertsnā, from Proto-Indo-European *kért-s-nh₂ (“portion”), from *ker-, *sker-.

cena f (plural cenas)

  1. supper, dinner

cena

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