cet

From Middle French cest, from Old French cist, from Vulgar Latin *ecce istu, from Latin ecce or eccum + istum, from iste.

• IPA^(key): /sɛt‿/
• Homophones: sept, cette
• Rhymes: -ɛt

cet

1. this
   • 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

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

• “cet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• etc.

Borrowed from Latin cētus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɛt]

cet (plural cetek)

1. whale

• bálna

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

• “1 cet” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

From Proto-Slavic *čet.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sɛt/

cet n

1. even number[1][2]