cé

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɛː]

cé n (indeclinable)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter C/c.

• “cé”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “cé”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

• IPA^(key): /se/
• Homophones: ces, cés, ses

cé m (plural cés)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter C/c.

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡seː]

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• Rhymes: -t͡seː

cé

1. The name of the Latin-script letter C/c.

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	cé	cék
accusative	cét	céket
dative	cének	céknek
instrumental	cével	cékkel
causal-final	céért	cékért
translative	cévé	cékké
terminative	céig	cékig
essive-formal	céként	cékként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	cében	cékben
superessive	cén	céken
adessive	cénél	céknél
illative	cébe	cékbe
sublative	cére	cékre
allative	céhez	cékhez
elative	céből	cékből
delative	céről	cékről
ablative	cétől	céktől
non-attributive possessive - singular	céé	céké
non-attributive possessive - plural	cééi	cékéi

Possessive forms of cé
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	cém	céim
2nd person sing.	céd	céid
3rd person sing.	céje	céi
1st person plural	cénk	céink
2nd person plural	cétek	céitek
3rd person plural	céjük	céik

• (Latin-script letter names) betű; a, á, bé, cé, csé, dé, dzé, dzsé, e, é, eff, gé, gyé, há, i, í, jé, ká, ell, ellipszilon / elly / ejj, emm, enn, enny, o, ó, ö, ő, pé, kú, err, ess, essz, té, tyé, u, ú, ü, ű, vé, dupla vé / vevé, iksz, ipszilon, zé, zsé. (See also: Latin script letters.)

• cé , redirecting to (2): c in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• cé, redirecting to c in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

• sé

• IPA^(key): /sjɛː/
• Rhymes: -ɛː
• Homophone: sé

cé n (genitive singular cés, nominative plural cé)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter C/c.

• IPA^(key): /ceː/

From Old Irish cía, from Proto-Celtic *kʷei (from which also Welsh pwy), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis.

• cia (obsolete)

cé (triggers h-prothesis of a following disjunctive pronoun é, í, iad; followed by a relative clause)

1. (interrogative) who?

   Cé hé?

   Who is he?

   Cé hí an bhean sin?

   Who is that woman?

   Cé a dhéanfaidh é?

   Who will do it?

Can be followed by a prepositional pronoun in the 3rd person singular masculine:

• Cé aige an fíon?

  Who has the wine?

• Cé dó ar thug tú é?

  Who did you give it to?

In this construction, it can also mean ‘what’:

• Cé air a bhfuil an leabhar?

  What is the book on?

• cén (“what, which? (singular)”)
• cé na (“what, which? (plural)”)
• cé acu (“which?”)
• cér, cérb (“who is?”)
• cér, cérbh (“who was?”)

From Old Irish cía (“although”).

• cidh, gidh, gidheadh

cé

1. Only used in cé go, cé gur, cé nach, and cé nár

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman kay, cail (modern French quai), from Gaulish cagiíum (“enclosure”), from Proto-Celtic *kagyom (“pen, enclosure”) (from which also Welsh cae (“hedge”)).

• céadh, céidh
• céibh (Cois Fharraige)

cé f (genitive singular cé, nominative plural céanna)

1. quay, wharf, pier

From Latin cē.

cé

1. The name of the Latin-script letter c/C.

• (Latin-script letter names) litir; á, bé, cé, dé, é, eif, gé, héis, í, jé, cá, eil, eim, ein, ó, pé, cú, ear, eas, té, ú, vé, wae, ex, yé, zae
• Note: The English names are also widely used by Irish speakers.

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cía (‘who’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 cía (‘although’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “céibe (‘quay’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cé”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 122
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “céaḋ (‘quay’)”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 122
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cé”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

cé m or f (invariable)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter C/c.

• (Latin-script letter names) lètra; a, bé, cé, dé, e, ëffe, ge, àcca / àca, i, i lóng, càpa, ëlle, èmme, ènne, o, pé, cu, ërre, ësse, té, u, vé, dópi vé / dópi vu / vu dópi, ics, i gréc / ìpsilon, zéta