cen

• cento (combining form only)

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

• Rhymes: -eŋ
• Hyphenation: cen

cen (indeclinable)

1. one hundred; 100

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.

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

• “cen”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

cen

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

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

From Proto-West Germanic *kiʀn.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃeːn/

ċēn m

1. (poetic) torch
2. (Runic alphabet) name of the rune ᚳ (k or tʃ)
   • The Old English rune poem

     ᚳ byþ cwicera ġehwām, cūþ on fȳre...

     Torch is by the living seen ablaze...

• (torch): þæċele
• fæcele

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

• IPA^(key): /kʲen/

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?

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

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, §§ 434, 827, pages 273, 501; reprinted 2017

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛn
• Syllabification: cen

cen f

1. genitive plural of cena

Borrowed from English change.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃen/

cen (nominative plural cens)

1. change, transition, turn

• yelacen (“turn of the year”)

From Proto-Celtic *kennos (“skin”) (compare Cornish kenn (“film, skin (on liquid); peel”), Breton kenn (“scurf, dandruff”), Old Irish cenn (“covering”)), 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”).

• IPA^(key): /kɛn/

cen m (plural cennau)

1. (dermatology) scurf, dandruff

   Synonyms: marwdon, sgrwff

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

   Synonym: cennyn

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

   Synonym: calch

4. (mycology) lichen

   Synonym: cramen y cerrig