cera

See also: Cera, ceră, c'era, and CERA

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin cēra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθeɾa/, [ˈθe.ɾa]

Noun

cera f (plural ceres)

1. wax

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin cēra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈsɛ.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈsə.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈse.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -eɾa

Noun

cera f (plural ceres)

1. wax

Derived terms

• cera d'abella
• cera de carnauba
• cera de les orelles
• cera perduda
• cerer
• cerós
• encerar

 

Related terms

• ceri
• cerífer
• cerilla
• cerot
• cerumen
• ciri

 

Further reading

• “cera” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Fala

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cera (“wax”), from Latin cēra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθeɾa/
• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: ce‧ra

Noun

cera f (plural ceras)

1. wax

References

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cera, from Latin cēra.

Noun

cera f (plural ceras)

1. wax

Further reading

• “cera”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cera”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cera”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Gallurese

Alternative forms

• zera (Aggius)

Etymology

Inherited from Classical Latin cēra, probably a borrowing from a substrate language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃera/

Noun

cera f (plural ceri)

1. wax. beeswax

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cēra (“wax”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.ra/
• Rhymes: -era
• Hyphenation: cé‧ra

Noun

cera f (plural cere)

1. wax
2. complexion

Derived terms

• cera bianca
• cera d'api (“beeswax”)
• cera da scarpe
• cera di carnauba
• cera di lignite
• cera giapponese
• cera molle
• cera persa
• cera vegetale
• cera vergine
• ceralacca
• ceroso (“waxy”)

 

References

• cera in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• cera in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• cera in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• cera in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Anagrams

• Arce, acre, care, crea, reca

Latin

Etymology 1

A foreign loan from a substrate language, cognate with Ancient Greek κηρός (kērós) and Albanian qiri, and possibly also with Lithuanian korys and Latvian kāre.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkeː.ra/, [ˈkeːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.ra/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːrä]

Noun

cēra f (genitive cērae); first declension

1. wax, beeswax, honeycomb
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.747–748:

     audit in exēsa strīdōrem exāminis ulmō,
     aspicit et cērās dissimulatque senex

     [Silenus] hears the buzzing of a swarm in a hollowed-out elm tree,
     and the old man can see the honeycombs, yet he dissimulates [pretends as if he has found nothing].
     (Ovid's word play relates the ‘‘exesus’’ – the tree's ‘‘having been consumed’’ – with the ‘‘examen’’ or swarm, which Silenus mistakenly assumes are bees; instead, moments later when he looks inside the tree he is attacked by hornets.)

2. a wax seal
3. a wax image

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cēra	cērae
Genitive	cērae	cērārum
Dative	cērae	cērīs
Accusative	cēram	cērās
Ablative	cērā	cērīs
Vocative	cēra	cērae

Derived terms

• cērārius
• cērātum
• cēreus
• cērificō
• cērō
• cēroferārius
• cērōsus
• cērula
• prīmicērius
• secundicērius

 

Descendants

• Aromanian: tsearã, tsiare
• Asturian: cera
• → Proto-Brythonic: *kuɨr
  • Breton: koar
  • Welsh: cwyr
• Catalan: cera
• Dalmatian: caira
• English: cere
• Franco-Provençal: cira
• French: cire
• Friulian: cere
• Galician: cera
• → Old Irish: céir
  • Irish: céir
  • Scottish Gaelic: cèir
• Italian: cera
• Norman: chithe (Jersey)
• Occitan: cera
• Piedmontese: sira
• Portuguese: cera
• Romanian: ceară
• Romansch: tschaira, tschera, tscheira
• Sardinian: chera, cera
• Sicilian: cira
• Spanish: cera
• Venetan: sera, siera, çera, zhera

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkeː.raː/, [ˈkeːräː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.ra/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːrä]

Verb

cērā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cērō

References

• “cera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cera in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cera”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cera”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin cēra.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Béarn):

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Noun

cera f (plural ceras)

1. wax

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛ.ra/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Syllabification: ce‧ra
• Homophone: Cera

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian cera, from Latin cēra.

Noun

cera f

1. complexion (appearance of the skin on the face)

Etymology 2

Deverbal from cerować.

Noun

cera f

1. (sewing) darn (filling in a hole in the fabric created by rubbing, tearing, or tearing out a piece of it by using interlaced stitch)

Declension

Declension of cera

	singular	plural
nominative	cera	cery
genitive	cery	cer
dative	cerze	cerom
accusative	cerę	cery
instrumental	cerą	cerami
locative	cerze	cerach
vocative	cero	cery

Further reading

• cera in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• cera in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cera (“wax”), from Latin cēra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.ɾɐ/

• Rhymes: -eɾɐ
• Hyphenation: ce‧ra

Noun

cera f (plural ceras)

1. wax (oily, water-resistant substance)
2. earwax, cerumen

Derived terms

• cera de ouvido
• cerinha
• cerol
• giz de cera

 

Related terms

• cerume

Sassarese

Pronunciation

• (Castelsardo) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃera/

Noun

cera f (plural ceri)

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of zera (“wax. beeswax”)

Silesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Czech céra, dcera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛ.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Syllabification: ce‧ra

Noun

cera f

1. daughter

Further reading

• cera in silling.org

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin cēra (“wax”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθeɾa/ [ˈθe.ɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈseɾa/ [ˈse.ɾa]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: ce‧ra

Noun

cera f (plural ceras)

1. wax
2. (Spain) crayon

   Synonyms: (Colombia, Venezuela, Canary Islands) creyón, (Argentina, Guatemala, Honduras, Uruguay) crayón, (Cuba, Mexico, Peru) crayola, (Spain) lápiz de cera

Derived terms

• árbol de la cera
• blanco como la cera
• cera de los oídos
• cera de palma
• cera fría
• cera tibia
• librillo de cera

 

Related terms

• cerilla
• cerillo
• ceroso
• cerumen
• encerar

 

Further reading

• “cera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Anagrams

• acre, arce, crea, caer