# cé
## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈt͡sɛː]

### Noun

cé n (indeclinable)
* The name of the Latin-script letter C/c.

#### Derived terms

* céčko

### Further reading

* “cé”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
* “cé”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /se/
* Homophones: ces, cés, ses

### Noun

cé m (plural cés)
* The name of the Latin-script letter C/c.
* (obsolete) A proposed unit of time equivalent to 1/100th of a day or 14 minutes and 24 seconds.

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈt͡seː]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -t͡seː

### Noun

cé
* The name of the Latin-script letter C/c.

#### Declension
### See also

* (Latin-script letter names) betű; a, á, bé, cé, csé, dé, dzé, dzsé, e, é, eff, gé, gyé, há, i, í, jé, ká, ell, ellipszilon / elly / ejj, emm, enn, enny, o, ó, ö, ő, pé, kú, err, ess, essz, té, tyé, u, ú, ü, ű, vé, dupla vé / vevé, iksz, ipszilon, zé, zsé. (See also: Latin script letters.)

### Further reading

* cé , redirecting to (2): c in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* cé, redirecting to c in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

## Icelandic
### Alternative forms

* sé

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sjɛː/
* Rhymes: -ɛː
* Homophone: sé

### Noun

cé n (genitive singular cés, nominative plural cé)
* The name of the Latin-script letter C/c.

#### Declension
## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ceː/

### Etymology 1

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

#### Alternative forms

* cia (obsolete)

#### Pronoun

cé (triggers h-prothesis of a following disjunctive pronoun é, í, iad; followed by a relative clause)
* (interrogative) who?
    Cé hé?Who is he?
    Cé hí an bhean sin?Who is that woman?
    Cé a dhéanfaidh é?Who will do it?

##### Usage notes

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?

##### Derived terms

* cé acu (“which?”)
* cé na (“what, which? (plural)”)
* cén (“what, which? (singular)”)
* cér(b) (“who is?”)
* cér((bh) (“who was?”)

### Etymology 2

From Old Irish cía (“although”).

#### Alternative forms

* cidh, gidh, gidheadh

#### Particle

cé
* Only used in cé go, cé gur, cé nach, and cé nár

### Etymology 3

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”)).

#### Alternative forms

* céadh, céidh
* céibh (Cois Fharraige)

#### Noun

cé f (genitive singular cé, nominative plural céanna)
* quay, wharf, pier

##### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
cé
céanna
vocative
a ché
a chéanna
genitive
cé
céanna
dative
cé
céanna
forms with the definite article
case
singular
plural
nominative
an ché
na céanna
genitive
na cé
na gcéanna
dative
leis an gcé don ché
leis na céanna :

### Etymology 4

From Latin cē.

#### Noun

cé
* The name of the Latin-script letter c/C.

#### See also

* (Latin-script letter names) litir; á, bé, cé, dé, é, eif, gé, héis, í, jé, cá, eil, eim, ein, ó, pé, cú, ear, eas, té, ú, vé, wae, ex, yé, zae
* Note: The English names are also widely used by Irish speakers.

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 428, page 138
* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cía (‘who’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 cía (‘although’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “céibe (‘quay’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

### Further reading

* Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cé”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 122
* Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “céaḋ (‘quay’)”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 122
* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cé”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Romagnol
### Noun

cé m or f (invariable)
* The name of the Latin-script letter C/c.

#### See also

* (Latin-script letter names) lètra; a, bé, cé, dé, e, ëffe, ge, àcca / àca, i, i lóng, càpa, ëlle, èmme, ènne, o, pé, cu, ërre, ësse, té, u, vé, dópi vé / dópi vu / vu dópi, ics, i gréc / ìpsilon, zéta