cernar - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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Borrowed from French cerner, German zernieren. Decision no. 954, Progreso VI.

cernar (present cernas, past cernis, future cernos, conditional cernus, imperative cernez)

  1. (transitive, military and figuratively) to make a circle or ring around, encircle, to beset on all sides, besiege, beleaguer, blockade, invest, hem in
  2. (transitive) to cut or dig around (a tree)

cernar

  1. inflection of cernō:
    1. first-person singular future passive indicative
    2. first-person singular present passive subjunctive

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