cena

From Latin cēna.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈsə.nə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.nə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈse.na/
• Homophone: sena

cena f (plural cenes)

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

• “cena” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “cena” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cena”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɛna]

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• Rhymes: -ɛna

cena f

1. price
2. prize

• cena in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• cena in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• cena in Internetová jazyková příručka

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.na/

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• Rhymes: -ena
• Hyphenation: cé‧na

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

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

• colazione
• pranzo

• acne, cane

• coena

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 (kʿertʿel, “to skin”), Sanskrit कृन्तति (kṛntáti, “he cuts (in pieces)”)).[1] Related to cortex, scortum.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkeː.na/, [ˈkeːnä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.na/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːnä]

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.

cēnā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cēnō

• “cena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cena”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cena 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)
• cena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the main dish: caput cenae (Fin. 2. 8. 25)
    
  • to invite some one to dinner: aliquem vocare, invitare ad cenam
    
  • to accept an invitiation to dinner: promittere (ad cenam) (Off. 3. 14. 58)
    
  • during dinner; at table: inter cenam, inter epulas
    
  • to invite oneself to some one's house for dinner: condicere alicui (ad cenam)
    
  • to welcome some one to one's table: adhibere aliquem cenae or ad cenam, convivio or in convivium
    
  • to set a repast before a person: cenam alicui apponere
    
• “cena”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cena”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Borrowed from Slavic *cěna.

cena f (4th declension)

1. price

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *cěna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kainā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂, from *kʷey-. Doublet of kajać.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛ.na/

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• Rhymes: -ɛna
• Syllabification: ce‧na

cena f

1. price

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

From Latin scaena.

• Rhymes: -enɐ
• Homophone: sena
• Hyphenation: ce‧na

cena f (plural cenas)

1. scene
2. stage

   Synonym: palco

   em cena ― on stage

3. (Portugal, informal) thing

   Synonyms: coisa, (Brazil) negócio

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cena.

• (Ijekavian) cijéna

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

• IPA^(key): /t͡sěːna/
• Hyphenation: ce‧na

céna f (Cyrillic spelling це́на)

1. price
2. value, worth

• cijeniti/ceniti

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sena]

cena f (genitive singular ceny, nominative plural ceny, genitive plural cien, declension pattern of žena)

1. price

• cenový
• cenovo, cenove

• cena in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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

• IPA^(key): /t͡sèːna/

cẹ́na f

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

• “cena”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

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

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθena/ [ˈθe.na]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈsena/ [ˈse.na]

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• Rhymes: -ena
• Syllabification: ce‧na

cena f (plural cenas)

1. supper, dinner

cena

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

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