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)
- (transitive, military and figuratively) to make a circle or ring around, encircle, to beset on all sides, besiege, beleaguer, blockade, invest, hem in
- (transitive) to cut or dig around (a tree)
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- inflection of cernō: