cé

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɛː]

cé n

1. The name of the Latin-script letter C.

• céčko

• cé in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• cé in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

• IPA^(key): /se/
• Homophones: ces, cés, ses

cé m (plural cés)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter C.

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡seː]

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cé

1. The name of the Latin-script letter C.

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• sé

• IPA^(key): /sjɛː/
• Rhymes: -ɛː
• Homophone: sé

cé n (genitive singular cés, nominative plural cé)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter C.

• IPA^(key): /ceː/

From Old Irish cía, from Proto-Celtic *kʷēs (from which also Welsh pwy), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷis.

• cia (obsolete)

cé (triggers h-prothesis of a following disjunctive pronoun é, í, iad; followed by a relative clause)

1. (interrogative) who?

   Cé hé?

   Who is he?

   Cé hí an bhean sin?

   Who is that woman?

   Cé a dhéanfaidh é?

   Who will do it?

Can be followed by a prepositional pronoun in the 3rd person singular masculine:

• Cé aige an fíon?

  Who has the wine?

• Cé dó ar thug tú é?

  Who did you give it to?

In this construction, it can also mean ‘what’:

• Cé air a bhfuil an leabhar?

  What is the book on?

• cén (“what, which? (singular)”)
• cé na (“what, which? (plural)”)
• cér, cérb (“who is?”)
• cér, cérbh (“who was?”)

From Old Irish cía (“although”).

cé

1. Only used in cé go, cé gur, cé nach, and cé nár

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman kay, cail (modern French quai), from Gaulish cagiíum (“enclosure”), from Proto-Celtic *kagyom (“pen, enclosure”) (from which also Welsh cae (“hedge”)).

• céadh
• céibh (Cois Fharraige)
• céidh

cé f (genitive singular cé, nominative plural céanna)

1. quay, wharf, pier

• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “1 cía (‘who’)”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “2 cía (‘although’)”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “céibe (‘quay’)”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
• “cé” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• “céaḋ (‘quay’)” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• "cé" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.