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Translingual

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Symbol

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cel

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

English

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Etymology 1

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Clipping of celluloid.

Noun

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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[2]:
      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.
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Etymology 2

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Clipping of celibate.

Noun

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cel (plural cels)

  1. clipping of celibate.
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Catalan

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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cel m (plural cels)

  1. sky
  2. heaven

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Crimean Tatar

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Noun

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cel

  1. (Northern dialect) gale, wind

Usage notes

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  • Literary form: yel

Declension

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Declension of cel
nominative cel
genitive celniñ
dative celge
accusative celni
locative celde
ablative celden

Czech

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Noun

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cel f

  1. genitive plural of cela

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cel n

  1. genitive plural of clo

Verb

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cel

  1. second-person singular imperative of celit

Dutch

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Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nl

Etymology

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From Middle Dutch celle, from Latin cella.

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Noun

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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

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Descendants

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

Latvian

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Verb

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cel

  1. inflection of celt:
    1. second-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Lombard

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Etymology

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From Latin caelum.

Noun

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cel m

  1. (Old Lombard) sky
  2. (Old Lombard) heaven

Old French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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cel m (oblique and nominative feminine singular cele)

  1. this (the one in question)

Declension

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Case masculine feminine neuter
singular subject cels cele cel
oblique cel cele cel
plural subject cel celes cel
oblique cels celes cel

Synonyms

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  • cist (chiefly 12th and 13th centuries)

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Old Occitan

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Etymology

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From Latin caelum.

Noun

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cel m

  1. Heaven

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Old Polish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old Czech cíl.[1][2] First attested in the fifteenth century.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (10th–15th CE) /t͡sɛːlʲ/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /t͡selʲ/

Noun

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cel m animacy unattested

  1. target (butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile)
    • 1930 [c. 1455], “I Reg”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka)[3], 20, 20:
      A ia trsy strzali wipusczø podle gego y wistrzelyø, iako bich zwikal strzelyacz ku celu (quasi exercens me ad signum)
      [A ja trzy strzały wypuszczę podle jego i wystrzelę, jako bych zwykał strzelać ku celu (quasi exercens me ad signum)]

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References

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  1. ^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “cel”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎[1] (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
  2. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “cel”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  • Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “cel”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “cel”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɛl
  • Syllabification: cel

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Polish cel. Compare German Ziel.

Noun

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cel m inan

  1. goal, aim, objective, target (that which one attempts to achieve)
  2. target (butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile)
  3. target, aim (person or object that is the focus of one's actions)
  4. goal, aim, objective; destination (place where one would like to go)
  5. (archaic, firearms) foresight (front sight of a rifle)
    Synonym: muszka
  6. (Middle Polish) end point, borderline
  7. (Middle Polish) deadline
    Synonym: termin
  8. (Middle Polish) racetrack; stadium
  9. (Middle Polish) measuring instrument for determining the direction of a straight line (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
  10. (Middle Polish) respect
    Synonyms: poważanie, szacunek
  11. (Middle Polish) abyss
    Synonym: przepaść
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adjective
interjection
noun
verbs
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adjectives
adverbs
nouns
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Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), cel is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 79 times in scientific texts, 69 times in news, 85 times in essays, 15 times in fiction, and 18 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 266 times, making it the 190th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

References

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  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “cel”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 42

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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cel f

  1. genitive plural of cela

Further reading

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  • cel in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • cel in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “cel”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • Krystyna Siekierska (22.01.2019) “CEL”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “cel”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “cel”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “cel”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 259

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Clipping of celular.

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Noun

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cel m (plural cels)

  1. (Brazil, Internet slang) mobile phone
    Synonym: celular

Romanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From acel.

Pronunciation

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Determiner

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

  1. (popular) that
    Synonyms: acel, acela, ăl, ăla

Declension

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determiner declension, indefinite only singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative
indefinite cel cea cei cele
definite
genitive-
dative
indefinite celui celei celor celor
definite

Article

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

  1. the

Declension

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determiner declension, indefinite only singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative
indefinite cel cea cei cele
definite
genitive-
dative
indefinite celui celei celor celor
definite

Pronoun

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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.

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determiner declension, indefinite only singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative
indefinite cel cea cei cele
definite
genitive-
dative
indefinite celui celei celor celor
definite

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Slovene

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Adjective

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cẹ̑ł (not comparable)

  1. whole

Inflection

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The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Hard
masculine feminine neuter
nom. sing. cél céla célo
singular
masculine feminine neuter
nominative cél ind
céli def
céla célo
genitive célega céle célega
dative célemu céli célemu
accusative nominativeinan or
genitive
anim
célo célo
locative célem céli célem
instrumental célim célo célim
dual
masculine feminine neuter
nominative céla céli céli
genitive célih célih célih
dative célima célima célima
accusative céla céli céli
locative célih célih célih
instrumental célima célima célima
plural
masculine feminine neuter
nominative céli céle céla
genitive célih célih célih
dative célim célim célim
accusative céle céle céla
locative célih célih célih
instrumental célimi célimi célimi

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

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  • cel”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2024

Spanish

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Etymology

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Clipping of celular.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθel/ [ˈθel]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈsel/ [ˈsel]
  • Rhymes: -el
  • Syllabification: cel

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cel m (plural celes)

  1. (Latin America, US, Philippines) cell phone, mobile phone
    Synonym: celular

Volapük

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Noun

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cel (nominative plural cels)

  1. cherry

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