cel

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cel"

Translingual

Symbol

cel

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Celtic languages.

English

Alternative forms

• cell

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛl/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Homophones: cell, sell
• Rhymes: -ɛl

Etymology 1

Clipping of celluloid.

Noun

cel (plural cels)

1. A piece of celluloid on which has been drawn a frame of an animated film.
   • 2008 June 22, Michael Hirschorn, “Success Story 2”, in New York Times‎:

     After Jobs’s $5 million offer was rejected, the team attempted to do a deal with Disney, then a bastion of hand-painted cel animation.

Derived terms

• cel-shaded
• cel shading

Etymology 2

Clipping of celibate.

Noun

cel (plural cels)

1. Clipping of celibacy or celibate.

Synonyms

• celibate
• truecel/trucel

Derived terms

terms derived using cel as suffix

• heightcel
• hicel
• incel
• marcel
• nearcel
• noncel
• truecel
• volcel

Anagrams

• CLE, ECL, LCE, LEC

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin caelum, from Proto-Italic *kailom, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂i-lom (“whole”), from *keh₂i-. Compare Occitan cèl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈsɛl]

• Audio (Catalonia):

  (file)

Noun

cel m (plural cels)

1. sky
2. heaven

Derived terms

• arc del cel
• celobert
• gratacel

Related terms

• celeste

Further reading

• “cel”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “cel”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “cel” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cel” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Crimean Tatar

Noun

cel

1. (Northern dialect) gale, wind

Usage notes

• Literary form: yel

Declension

Declension of cel

nominative	cel
genitive	celniñ
dative	celge
accusative	celni
locative	celde
ablative	celden

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɛl]

Noun

cel f

1. genitive plural of cela

Noun

cel n

1. genitive plural of clo

Verb

cel

1. second-person singular imperative of celit

Dutch

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Etymology

From Middle Dutch celle, from Latin cella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛl/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: cel
• Rhymes: -ɛl

Noun

cel f (plural cellen, diminutive celletje n)

1. cell (a compartment)
   1. component of a battery
   2. (biology) component of a body tissue
   3. (architecture) a small room, such as a prison or cloister cell
   4. (entomology) cell – of a honeycomb
   5. (computer science) cell – of a table

Synonyms

• (prison cell): gevangeniscel
• (cloister cell): kloostercel

Derived terms

• bloedcel
• brandstofcel
• celdeling
• celkern
• cellenbeton
• celmaat
• celmembraan
• celsplitsing
• celwand
• eicel
• gevangeniscel
• hersencel
• kloostercel
• knoopcel
• telefooncel
• terreurcel
• zaadcel
• zenuwcel

Descendants

• Afrikaans: sel
• → Indonesian: sel
• → Papiamentu: sèl

Latvian

Verb

cel

1. inflection of celt:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Lombard

Etymology

From Latin caelum.

Noun

cel m

1. (Old Lombard) sky
2. (Old Lombard) heaven

Old French

Alternative forms

• cil, chil, chel

Etymology

From an earlier cil, from Vulgar Latin *ecce ille, a compound of Latin ecce and ille. Largely replaced cist used in earlier Old French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (unstressed) /t͡səl/
• IPA^(key): (stressed) /ˈt͡sɛl/

Adjective

cel m (oblique and nominative feminine singular cele)

1. this (the one in question)

Declension

	Case	masculine	feminine	neuter
singular	subject	cels	cele	cel
	oblique	cel			cele	cel
plural	subject	cel	celes		cel
	oblique	cels			celes	cel

Synonyms

• cist (chiefly 12^th and 13^th centuries)

Descendants

• Middle French: cel
  • French: ce
  • Lorrain: ceil

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin caelum.

Noun

cel m

1. Heaven

Descendants

• Occitan: cèl, ciau, ciel, cèu