ceto

From Latin coetus (“union”).

ceto m (plural ceti)

1. (sociology, economy) class (in society)

   Synonym: rango

   il ceto medio ― middle class

• teco

cētō

1. dative/ablative singular of cētus

• cetu, cíato

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʲedo/

ceto (triggers lenition)

1. Contraction of ce, cía (“although”) + it (“they are”).
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 18d14

     Ní airegdu a persan-som ol·daas persan na n‑abstal olchene, ceto thoísegu i n‑iriss.

     Their persons are not more eminent than the persons of the rest of the apostles, though they are prior in faith.

     (literally, “Their person is not … than the person of …”)

• Rudolf Thurneysen (1940, reprinted 2003)D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 793, page 484