cen

cen

See also: Cen, -cen, cen-, cén, cēn, ceń, and -cén

Galician

Galician numbers ^(edit)

		1,000
←  90	←  99	100	200  →	1,000  →
		10
Cardinal: cen     Ordinal: centésimo     Multiplier: céntuplo     Fractional: centésimo

Alternative forms

• cento (combining form only)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cen, from cento, from Latin centum, from Proto-Italic *kentom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θeŋ/

Numeral

cen (indeclinable)

1. one hundred; 100

Usage notes

The indeclinable form cen means "one hundred" only. To say "one hundred one", the combining form cento is used, as cento un or cento unha. Likewise, "one hundred thirty" is cento trinta, and "one hundred fifty-four" is cento cincuenta e catro.

See also

• douscentos (“two hundred”)
• trescentos (“three hundred”)
• quiñentos (“five hundred”)
• setecentos (“seven hundred”)

Further reading

• “cen” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

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Mandarin

Romanization

cen

1. Nonstandard spelling of cēn.
2. Nonstandard spelling of cén.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *kiʀn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃeːn/

Noun

ċēn m

1. (poetic) torch
2. the runic character ᚳ (/k/ or /tʃ/)

Synonyms

• (torch): þæċele
• fæcele

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kina (“on this side of”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe (“this, here”); compare Breton ken (“otherwise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʲen/

Preposition

cen (governs the accusative; triggers lenition)

1. except
2. without
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 20^d4

     Cía ru·bé cen ní diib, ní·rubai cenaib huli.

     Though he might be without some of them, he could not be without all of them.

3. not to (followed by a verbal noun)
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 9^c20

     cid atob·aich cen dílgud cech ancridi do·gnethe frib, et ní bethe fria acre

     what impels you pl not to forgive every injury that may have been done to you, and that you should not be about to sue [because of] it?

Inflection

Inflection of cen

Person	Normal	Emphatic
1st person sing.
2d person sing.		cenutsu
3d sing. masc./neut., dative
3d sing. masc./neut., accusative	cen(a)e
3d sing. fem., dative
3d sing. fem., accusative
1st person pl.
2d person pl.		cenuibsi
3d person pl., dative
3d person pl., accusative	cenaib

Derived terms

• cene
• cen ḟis do

 

Descendants

• Irish: gan
• Manx: gyn
• Scottish Gaelic: gun

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cen	chen	cen pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003), D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, §§ 434, 827, pages 273, 501

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sɛn/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɛn
• Syllabification: cen

Noun

cen f

1. genitive plural of cena

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Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English change.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃen/

Noun

cen (nominative plural cens)

1. change, transition, turn

Declension

declension of cen

	singular	plural
nominative	cen	cens
genitive	cena	cenas
dative	cene	cenes
accusative	ceni	cenis
vocative 1	o cen!	o cens!
predicative 2	cenu	cenus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms

• yelacen (“turn of the year”)

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Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kenni- (“skin”) (compare Cornish kenn (“film, skin (on liquid); peel”), Breton kenn (“scurf, dandruff”), Old Irish ceinn (“scale”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sken- (“to split off”) (compare German schinden (“to strip, peel; skin”)); further to Cornish skans (“fish scales”), Breton skant (“fish scales”), Irish scain (“to tear, burst”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɛn/

Noun

cen m (plural cennau)

1. (dermatology) scurf, dandruff

   Synonyms: morwdon, mordon

2. (biology) scale (on fish, bud)

   Synonym: cennyn

3. (chemistry) scale, scurf, fur (in pipe, boiler, furnace, kettle)

   Synonym: calch

4. (mycology) lichen

Derived terms

Derived terms

• cen blaguro (“bud scale”)
• cen bract (“bract scales”)
• cen pen (“dandruff”)
• cen y cerrig (“(rock) lichen”)
• cen y coed (“(tree) lichen”)
• cenfesureg (“lichenometry”)
• cenfetreg (“lichenometry”)
• dyddio cen (“lichenometry”)
• gweinwyfyn cen (“case bearer”)
• gweinwyfyn cen bach (“lesser case bearer”)
• gweinwyfyn cen cul (“narrow case bearer”)
• rhisglyn y cen (“Brussels lace”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cen	gen	nghen	chen
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.