ceri

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ɾi/

ceri m (uncountable)

1. cerium

Learned borrowing from Latin cēreus. Doublet of ciri, a semilearned borrowing.

ceri (feminine cèria, masculine plural ceris, feminine plural cèries)

1. waxen

• cera

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

From English cherry, from Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse (“cherry”), both ultimately from Vulgar Latin ceresia, from Late Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin.

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛri]
• Hyphenation: cè‧ri

ceri (first-person possessive ceriku, second-person possessive cerimu, third-person possessive cerinya)

1. cherry:
   1. a small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
   2. Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
   3. The wood of a cherry tree.

• kers, kersen
• seri

• “ceri” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.ri/
• Rhymes: -eri
• Syllabification: cé‧ri

ceri m

1. plural of cero

• crei

ceri

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of cerēt
2. 2nd person singular imperative form of cerēt

• IPA^(key): [tʃerʲ]

ceri

1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of cere

ceri f

1. indefinite genitive/dative singular of ceară

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛrɪ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkeːri/, /ˈkɛri/

Related to Old Irish cáer (“berry”).

ceri f pl (singulative cerïen)

1. service trees
2. berries of the dog rose, wild rosehips
3. medlar trees

• cari (colloquial)

ceri

1. (literary) second-person singular present indicative/future of caru

R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “ceri”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies