ceto

See also: Ceto, céto-, and četo

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin coetus (“group, society”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛ.to/
• Rhymes: -ɛto
• Hyphenation: cè‧to

Noun

ceto m (plural ceti)

1. (sociology, economy) class (in society)

   Synonym: rango

   il ceto medio ― middle class

Anagrams

• Toce, cote, ecto-, teco

Javanese

Adjective

ceto

1. nonstandard spelling of cetha

Latin

Noun

cētō

1. dative/ablative singular of cētus

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• cetu, cíato

Etymology

Univerbation of ce, cía (“although”); it (“they are”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʲe.d̪o/

Verb

ceto (triggers lenition)

1. although they are
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 18^d14

     Ní airegdu a persan-som ol·daas persan na n‑abstal olchene, ceto thoísegu i n‑iriss.

     Their persons are not more eminent than the persons of the rest of the apostles, though they are prior in faith.

     (literally, “Their person is not … than the person of …”)

Further reading

• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909], D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 793, page 484; reprinted 2017