cel

cel

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Celtic languages.

• cell

• IPA^(key): /sɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Homophones: cell, sell

Clipping of celluloid.

cel (plural cels)

1. A piece of celluloid on which has been drawn a frame of an animated film.
   • 2008 June 22, Michael Hirschorn, “Success Story 2”, in New York Times‎:

     After Jobs’s $5 million offer was rejected, the team attempted to do a deal with Disney, then a bastion of hand-painted cel animation.

• cel shading

Clipping of celibate.

cel (plural cels)

1. clipping of celibate.

• celibate
• truecel

• CLE, ECL, LCE, LEC

From Latin caelum, from Proto-Italic *kailom, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂i-lom (“whole”), from *keh₂i-. Compare Occitan cèl.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛl/

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cel m (plural cels)

1. sky
2. heaven

• celobert
• gratacel

• celeste

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

cel

1. (Northern dialect) gale, wind

• Literary form: yel

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɛl]

cel

1. genitive plural of cela

cel

1. genitive plural of clo

From Middle Dutch celle, from Latin cella.

• IPA^(key): /sɛl/

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• Hyphenation: cel
• Rhymes: -ɛl

cel f (plural cellen, diminutive celletje n)

1. cell (a compartment)
   1. component of a battery
   2. (biology) component of a body tissue
   3. (architecture) a small room, such as a prison or cloister cell
   4. (entomology) cell – of a honeycomb
   5. (computer science) cell – of a table

• (prison cell): gevangeniscel
• (cloister cell): kloostercel

• Afrikaans: sel
• → Indonesian: sel
• → Papiamentu: sèl

cel

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

• cil, chil, chel

From an earlier cil, from Vulgar Latin *ecce ille, a compound of Latin ecce and ille. Largely replaced cist used in earlier Old French.

• IPA^(key): (unstressed) /t͡səl/
• IPA^(key): (stressed) /ˈt͡sɛl/

cel m (oblique and nominative feminine singular cele)

1. this (the one in question)

• cist (chiefly 12^th and 13^th centuries)

• Middle French:
  • French: ce
  • Lorrain: ceil
    • Barrois: cheil

From Latin caelum.

cel m

1. Heaven

• Occitan: cèl, ciau, ciel, cèu

• IPA^(key): /t͡sɛl/

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• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Syllabification: cel

Borrowed from Middle High German zil. Compare German Ziel.

cel m inan

1. goal, aim, objective
2. (shooting) target
3. (military) target
4. destination

• → Esperanto: celo
• → Russian: цель (celʹ)
• → Ukrainian: ціль (cilʹ)

cel m anim

1. (colloquial) aim, ability to hit a target with a weapon

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cel f

1. genitive plural of cela

• cel in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• cel in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Clipping of celular.

cel m (plural cels)

1. (Brazil, Internet slang) mobile phone

   Synonym: celular

From acel.

• IPA^(key): [tʃel]

cel m or n (feminine singular cea, masculine plural cei, feminine and neuter plural cele)

1. (popular) that

• acel, acela, ăl, ăla

cel m or n (feminine singular cea, masculine plural cei, feminine and neuter plural cele)

1. the

cel m or n (feminine singular cea, masculine plural cei, feminine and neuter plural cele)

1. the one (that is)

   Cel bogat face cum vrea, cel sărac face cum poate.

   The rich one does as he pleases, the poor one does as he can.

• celălalt

• IPA^(key): /t͡séːʋ/

cẹ̑ł (not comparable)

1. whole

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

• “cel”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

• IPA^(key): [tʃel]

cel (nominative plural cels)

1. cherry