# ceri
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsɛ.ɾi]

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

ceri m (uncountable)
* cerium

### Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin cēreus. Doublet of ciri, a semilearned borrowing.

#### Adjective

ceri (feminine cèria, masculine plural ceris, feminine plural cèries)
* waxen

##### Related terms

* cera

### Further reading

* “ceri” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “ceri”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “ceri” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “ceri” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From English cherry, from Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse (“cherry”), both ultimately from Vulgar Latin ceresia, from Late Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin. Mostly replaced both kersen and kers.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈt͡ʃɛri]
* Hyphenation: cè‧ri

### Noun

ceri (plural ceri-ceri)
* cherry:
** a small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem
** Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries
** the wood of a cherry tree

#### Synonyms

* kers, kersen
* seri

### Further reading

* “ceri” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt͡ʃe.ri/
* Rhymes: -eri
* Hyphenation: cé‧ri

### Noun

ceri m
* plural of cero

### Anagrams

* crei

## Latvian
### Verb

ceri
* inflection of cerēt:
** second-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [tʃerʲ]

### Verb

ceri
* second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of cere

### Noun

ceri f
* indefinite genitive/dative singular of ceară

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /ˈkɛrɪ/
* (South Wales) IPA: /ˈkeːri/, /ˈkɛri/

### Etymology 1

Related to Old Irish cáer (“berry”). Outside of Celtic, likely related to Latin carīna (“half of a walnut shell; ship keel”); see there for more.

#### Noun

ceri f (collective, singulative cerïen)
* rowan trees
    Synonym: criafol
* hips (fruit), especially of dogrose or briar
    Synonym: egroes
* medlar trees
    Synonym: merysbrennau

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Alternative forms

* cari (colloquial)

#### Verb

ceri
* (literary) second-person singular present indicative/future of caru

### Mutation

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

### References

* ↑ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “ceri”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “carīna”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 93