ceresia

Interlingua

Noun

ceresia (plural ceresias)

cherry

Latin

FWOTD – 3 July 2019

ceresia

Etymology

From the neuter plural of Late Latin ceresium, from cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry”), from Ancient Greek κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /keˈre.si.a/, [kɛˈrɛs̠iä]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃeˈre.si.a/, [t͡ʃeˈrɛːs̬iä]
(Proto-Romance) IPA^(key): /keˈrɛsʲa/

Noun

ceresia f (genitive ceresiae); first declension

(Late Latin, Vulgar Latin) cherry
- 200s, Quintus Gargilius Martialis De pomis seu medicina ex pomis 16 ed. Angelo Mai Operis deperditi de hortis Fragmenta ex codicibus Neapolitano et Romano cum scholiis palaeographicis et adnotationibus Rome 1846 p. 76 = Classici auctores e Vaticanicis codicibus editi. Tomus III Rome 1831 p. 422
  Ceresiā viride pomum ventrem humectat et provocat; aridum siccat ac detinet: viride stomacho contrarium est, siccum utile. In hoc pomo tres inesse virtutes suspicamur. In quibusdam sapor austerus est, in aliis acidus, in aliis dulcis. Austerae ventrem constringunt, stomachum confortant. Acidae iudicantur flegmate habundantibus stomachis opportunae: nam magis siccant et crassitudinem dentium orisque humorem incidunt. Dulces stomacho contrariae. Citius autem praenestinae fluunt. Gummus earum ore detentus et gluttiendus arteriam linit, vetustissimam tussem conpescit: cum mero potatus calculos frangit.
  The fresh fruit from the cherry moistens the maw and stimulates; dry it desiccates and draws back: the fresh fruit is bad for the stomach and the dry one good. In this fruit we believe to be three virtues. In some the taste is bitter, in some sour, in some sweet. The bitter ones constrict the belly, strengthen the stomach. The sour ones are said to fit stomachs abundating in phlegm: for they desiccate more and cut off the thickness of the teeth and humour of the mouth. The sweet ones are bad for the stomach. However the Praenestinian ones flow faster. Their gum, held in the mouth and swallowed, covers the arteries, constrains the oldest cough: drunk with unmixed wine it breaks the calculi.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ceresia	ceresiae
Genitive	ceresiae	ceresiārum
Dative	ceresiae	ceresiīs
Accusative	ceresiam	ceresiās
Ablative	ceresiā	ceresiīs
Vocative	ceresia	ceresiae

Related terms

cerasus

Descendants

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: cireashã, tsireashi, cireashi, tsireashã, tseriashã
- Romanian: cireașă
  - → Bulgarian: череша (čereša)
Dalmatian:
- cris
Istriot:
- sareza
Italo-Romance:
- Central Italian: cerasa, ceregia
- Corsican: chjarasgia
- Italian: ciliegia, ciriegia, cerasa
- Neapolitan: cerasa
  Tarantino: ceráse
- Tuscan saragia
- Sicilian: cirasa
  - → Maltese: ċirasa
Padanian:
- Emilian: sresa, siresa
- Friulian: cjariese, ceriese
- Ligurian: çêxa
- Lombard: saresa, seresa, siresa
- Piedmontese: seresa, siresa, sresa
- Romagnol: sresa, srisa
- Romansch: tscharescha, tscherescha; tschariescha; tschirescha
- Venetian: siréxa, saréxa, sariéxa, siaréxa, çaréxa
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: ceriése, ceriésa, cerije, çrije, çrisa, ceriéje, ciriéje
- Old French: cerise
  - Bourguignon: cerize
  - French: cerise (see there for further descendants)
  - Norman: chérise (Jersey)
  - Picard: chrisse
  - Walloon: ceréjhe
  - → Middle English: cheri (see there for further descendants)
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Aragonese: ciresa
- Catalan: cirera, cidera, cilera, cira
- Occitan:
  Auvergnat: celeira, celira
  Gascon: ceriesa, cerisa, cerilha, cerida, çrisa, çrilha, cerija, cereja, çrija, cesira, cerida
  Languedocien: cerièra, cirera, cerièira, cirèira, cièira, cedièira, cilèira, celèira, celhèira, cilhèira, cerèija, cirèia
  Limousin: cireisa, cireija, cireia
  Provençal: cerieisa, cerieia, cerièira, cerisa
  Vivaro-Alpine: cereisa, cerieisa, ceriesa, ceriera, ciriesa, ceresa, cieresa, cireisa
Ibero-Romance:
- Old Leonese:
  - Asturian: cereza, zreza
    Occidental: cereiza, zreiza
  - Leonese: zreisa, cereisa, zreiza
  - Mirandese: cereija
- Old Spanish: ceresa
  - Spanish: cereza
    - → Tagalog: seresa
- Old Portuguese: cereyja
  - Galician: cereixa, cireixa, zreixa, cieira
  - Portuguese: cereja
    cereija, sareija
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: carésia, cerésia, cheréssia, ceréxia

Borrowings

→ Albanian: qershi
→ Basque: gerezi
→ Proto-Celtic: *keresyā
- → Proto-Brythonic: *kėres (see there for further descendants)
→ Proto-West Germanic: *kirsijā (see there for further descendants)
→ Proto-Slavic: *čèršьňa (possibly via Germanic) (see there for further descendants)