cet

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From Middle French cest, from Old French cist~cest, from Vulgar Latin *ecce iste, from Latin ecce + iste.

• IPA^(key): /sɛ.t‿/, /se.t‿/

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• Homophones: sept, cette
• Rhymes: -ɛt

cet

1. this

   Synonym: (used before a masculine noun not starting with a vowel) ce

   • 1837 Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche^{fr.Wikisource}, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:

     Or, il faut savoir que cet hidalgo, dans les moments où il restait oisif, c’est-à-dire à peu près toute l’année, s’adonnait à lire des livres de chevalerie....

     Yet, it must be known that this hidalgo, in the moments where he remained idle, that is to say just about the whole year, devoted himself to reading books of chivalry....

• used before a masculine noun starting with a vowel or a mute h

• “cet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• etc.

Borrowed from Latin cētus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɛt]
• Rhymes: -ɛt

cet (plural cetek)

1. (formal) whale

   Synonym: bálna

• cet in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• cet in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2023)

Borrowed from Latin licet.

• IPA^(key): /kʲed/

cet

1. I agree, permission granted, etc.

cet (indeclinable in the early language, with the copula)

1. something allowable, permissible
2. something required
3. permission
4. good will

• Irish: cead
• Scottish Gaelic: cead

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 cet”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *čet.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt
• Syllabification: cet

cet m inan

1. (obsolete) even number[1][2]

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

From Ottoman Turkish جد‎, from Arabic جَدّ‎ (jadd).

cet (definite accusative ceddi, plural cetler)

1. grandfather
2. ancestor

• cet in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “cet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “جد”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 646