ciel

ciel (third-person singular simple present ciels, present participle cieling, simple past and past participle cieled)

1. Alternative form of ceil

• -icle, Celi, ICLE, ILEC, Icel., ceil, lice

From Old French ciel, from Latin caelum, from Proto-Italic *kailom, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂i-lom (“whole”), from *keh₂i-.

• IPA^(key): /sjɛl/

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ciel m (plural cieux or ciels)

1. sky
2. heaven

• à ciel ouvert

• céleste

ciel m (plural ciels)

1. canopy (of a bed, etc.)

ciel

1. heavens!

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

ciel m

1. Apocopic form of cielo

• celi, Cile, elci

From Old French ciel, from Latin caelum.

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ciel m (plural cieux)

1. (Jersey) sky

From Latin caelum.

• IPA^(key): /t͡si̯el/

ciel m (oblique plural cieus or ciex or ciels, nominative singular cieus or ciex or ciels, nominative plural ciel)

1. heaven

• French: ciel
  • → English: ceil
  • Haitian Creole: syèl
• Norman: ciel
• Walloon: cir

ciel (plural ciels)

1. gill