-ce

-ce

1. (chiefly after 1, 2, or 3) Times: used to form a multiplicative numeral from a cardinal numeral.
   • 1809, abridgement of, 1758, Rob. Whytt, "On the Remarkable Effects of Blisters in Lessening the Quickness of the Pulse in Coughs, attended with Infarction of the Lungs and Fever" (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, volume fifty, page 569), in, Charles Hutton, George Shaw, and Richard Pearson, The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Abridged, volume eleven, page 222 :

     Her stomach being extremely delicate, he scarcely ordered any medicines for her all this time, except a cordial julep, with spir. volat. oleos. tinct. of rhubarb as a laxative, and a julep of aqu. rosar. acet. [illegible] alb. and syr. bals. of which last she took 2 table spoonfuls 2ce or 3ce a day in ¼ of a pint of lintseed tea.

   • 1998 January 21, "LT" <elstazeelandnet.nl>, "Novell 32bit client for NT - have to log in 2ce???", message-ID <34C5C8D6.7927D6B@zeelandnet.nl>, comp.os.netware.connectivity, Usenet:

     Whenever a user tries to login […] , a second login box comes up and they have to log in twice, apparently once for Novell, and once for the NT domain.

   • 2003 August 23, "Pinky" [Trevor A Panther] <tapan@SPAMLESSblueyonder.co.uk>, "Re: Plastic corks - UK", message-ID <Ziy1b.2042$O62.16624775@news-text.cableinet.net>, rec.crafts.winemaking, Usenet :

     What you need is a "synthetic" corks which are about 2ce or 3ce the price of cork "corks" and any good home brew shop will be able to supply.

• E.C., EC, ec.

-ce

1. -or, -er

   ‎vládnout + ‎-ce → ‎vládce

2. -tion

   Latin gradātiō → gradace

• -ce in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017

From the Proto-Indo-European deictic particle *ḱe (“here”).

• -c
• ce- (proclitic)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ke/, [kɛ]

-ce (particle)

1. affixed, usually to demonstratives, forming deixes

   ce- + -do → cedo

   ec- + -ce → ecce

   hi- + -c → hic

   ille + -c → illic

   tum + -c → tunc

• “-ce” on page 291/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

A regularly declined form of -cus.

-ce

1. vocative masculine singular of -cus

-ce

1. Alternative form of -yssh

• “-ish, (suf.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 16 June 2018.

From Proto-Slavic *-ьce.

-ce (Cyrillic spelling -це)

1. Appended to words to create a neuter noun, usually to form a diminutive or as an expression of endearment, or to denote an object.

• -ance
• -ence

-ce

1. like, -like, -ly; -ish; as if, as though; in the way of
2. Used to form adverbs from nouns and adjectives.

   ‎gizli (“secret”) + ‎-ce → ‎gizlice (“secretly”)

3. -ish: Used to form languages from a demonym/nationality.

   ‎İngiliz (“English”) + ‎-ce → ‎İngilizce (“English language”) (literally "like an English person")

4. -ian, -ese: Used to form languages from the name of a country or region.

   ‎Çin (“China”) + ‎-ce → ‎Çince (“Chinese language”) (literally "in the way of China")

• It's used when the nationality word's last vowel is one of "e", "i", "ö" or "ü" and the last consonant is one of "b", "c", "d", "g", "ğ", "j", "l", "m", "n", "r", "v", "y" or "z"
• It can become -ca, -ça, -çe according to the last vowel and the last consonant of the word.