# cerne
## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French [Term?], inherited from Latin circinus (“pair of compasses”); compare Romanian cearcăn.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɛʁn/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

cerne m (plural cernes)
* dark bluish coloration around the eyes, periorbital dark circle
* dark circle around a lesion
* tree ring

#### Usage notes

This noun is often incorrectly considered as feminine.

#### Related terms

* cerner

### Verb

cerne
* inflection of cerner:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “cerne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* encre, encré

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈθɛɾne̝/, (western) /ˈsɛɾne̝/

### Noun

cerne m (plural cernes)
* Nonstandard form of cerna (“heartwood; core, kernel”).

### Adjective

cerne m or f (plural cernes)
* Nonstandard form of cerno (“steady, firm, upright; hard”).

### References

* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “çerna”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “çerno”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cerne”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cerne”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Italian
### Verb

cerne
* third-person singular present indicative of cernere

## Latin
### Verb

cerne
* second-person singular present active imperative of cernō

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsɛʁ.ni/ [ˈsɛɦ.ni]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsɛʁ.ni/ [ˈsɛɦ.ni]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˈsɛɾ.ni/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈsɛʁ.ni/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈsɛɻ.ne/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈsɛɾ.nɨ/

#### Noun

cerne m (plural cernes)
* heartwood (wood nearer the heart of a stem)
    Synonym: durame
* kernel (core or essence of an object or system)
* (figurative) main (the most important part of something)

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

cerne
* inflection of cernir:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin cernere, from Proto-Italic *krinō, from Proto-Indo-European *krey-.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

a cerne (third-person singular present cerne, past participle cernut) 3rd conjugation
* to sift
* to discern
    Synonym: distinge
* to screen, sort

#### Derived terms

* cernător
* cernere
* cernut

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin circen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /ˈθeɾne/ [ˈθeɾ.ne]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈseɾne/ [ˈseɾ.ne]
* Rhymes: -eɾne
* Syllabification: cer‧ne

### Adjective

cerne m or f (masculine and feminine plural cernes)
* hard (wood)

### Further reading

* “cerne”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10