cena

Inherited from Latin cēna.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈsɛ.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈsə.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈse.na]
• Homophone: sena

cena f (plural cenes)

1. (Christianity, often capitalized) ellipsis of Santa Cena; Last Supper
2. (archaic) synonym of sopar (“supper”)

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “cena”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
• “cena”, 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
• “cena”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

Inherited from Old Czech cěna, from Proto-Slavic *cěna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kainā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂.

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɛna]

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• Rhymes: -ɛna

cena f

1. price
2. prize

• “cena”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “cena”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “cena”, in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012–2026, slovnikcestiny.cz
• “cena”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

• zena (Aggius)^[1]

Inherited from Classical Latin cēna, from Old Latin cesna, from Proto-Italic *kertsnā, from Proto-Indo-European *kért-sneh₂ (“portion”), derived from the root *(s)kert- (“to cut”), from *(s)ker-

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛna/^[1]

cena f (plural ceni)

1. dinner

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.na/

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• Rhymes: -ena
• Hyphenation: cé‧na

Inherited from Latin cēna, from Proto-Italic *kertsnā, from Proto-Indo-European *kért-s-nh₂ (“portion”), from *ker-, *sker-. Compare Spanish cena, Portuguese ceia and Romanian cină.

cena f (plural cene)

1. dinner (evening meal)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cena

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

• colazione
• pranzo

• acne, cane

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *cěna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛ.na/
• Rhymes: -ɛna
• Syllabification: ce‧na

cena f

1. price (cost required to gain possession of something)

   Synonym: priz

2. value (meaning of something)

• Stefan Ramułt (1893), “cena”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 16
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011), “cena”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[2]
• “cena”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

• coena, cœna

From Old Latin cesna, from Proto-Italic *kertsnā (compare Umbrian śesna, Oscan kersnu), from Proto-Indo-European *kért-sneh₂ (“portion”), from root *(s)kert- (“to cut”), from *(s)ker- (compare Lithuanian kérti, Armenian քերթել (kʻertʻel, “to skin”), Sanskrit कृन्तति (kṛntáti, “he cuts (in pieces)”)).^[1] Related to cortex, scortum.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkeː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛː.na]

cēna f (genitive cēnae); first declension

1. dinner, supper, principal meal (anciently taken at noon, afterwards later)
2. (Medieval Latin, law, historical) gwestva (a duty levied by Welsh kings twice a year upon the free men of their kingdom)

First-declension noun.

cēnā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cēnō

• “cena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cena”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "cena", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “cena”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the main dish: caput cenae (Fin. 2. 8. 25)
    
  • to invite some one to dinner: aliquem vocare, invitare ad cenam
    
  • to accept an invitiation to dinner: promittere (ad cenam) (Off. 3. 14. 58)
    
  • during dinner; at table: inter cenam, inter epulas
    
  • to invite oneself to some one's house for dinner: condicere alicui (ad cenam)
    
  • to welcome some one to one's table: adhibere aliquem cenae or ad cenam, convivio or in convivium
    
  • to set a repast before a person: cenam alicui apponere
    
• “cena”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cena”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Borrowed from Slavic *cěna.

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sæna]

cȩna f (4th declension)

1. price

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeː.nɑ/

cēna

1. inflection of cēne:
   1. strong feminine nominative/accusative plural
   2. weak masculine nominative singular

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃeː.nɑ/

ċēna

1. genitive plural of ċēn

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /t͡sʲɛːna/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /t͡sʲena/

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *cěna. The shift from cana to cena was a generalization of forms such as w cenie, cenić, etc. First attested in the 15th century.

• cana

cena f

1. (attested in Greater Poland) price, value
   • 1874-1891 [15th century], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności‎^{[4], [5], [6]}, volume XXIV, Grochów, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Kcynia, page 64:

     Sine omni taxa czany

     [Sine omni taxa cany]

• Polish: cena
• Silesian: cena

See cyna.

cena f

1. alternative form of cyna

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “cena”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
• Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965), “cena”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
• Mańczak, Witold (2017), “cena”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “cena”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “cena”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *cěna. First attested in 1473.

cena f

1. price (cost required to gain possession of something)
2. value (meaning of something)

• Pannonian Rusyn: цена (cena)
• Slovak: cena

• Majtán, Milan et al., editors (1991–2008), “cena”, in Historický slovník slovenského jazyka [Historical Dictionary of the Slovak Language] (in Slovak), volumes 1–7 (A – Ž), Bratislava: VEDA, →OCLC

• czyna (Middle Polish)

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• Rhymes: -ɛna
• Syllabification: ce‧na

Inherited from Old Polish cena.

cena f

1. price (cost required to gain possession of something)
2. value (meaning of something)

   Synonym: wartość

3. (Middle Polish, mathematics) value; size (size of a number; property of measurability)

   Synonym: wielkość

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), cena is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 15 times in scientific texts, 25 times in news, 58 times in essays, 4 times in fiction, and 12 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 114 times, making it the 531st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.^[1]

See cyna.

cena f

1. (Central Greater Poland, Oborniki) alternative form of cyna

• “cena”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[7] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “cena”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[8] (in Polish)
• Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “1. cena”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Krystyna Siekierska (30.01.2019), “CENA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “cena”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “cena”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “cena”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 262
• cena in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

• scena (pre-reform spelling)

Learned borrowing from Latin sc(a)ena.

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• Rhymes: -enɐ, (Brazil) -ẽnɐ
• Homophones: sena, Sena
• Hyphenation: ce‧na

cena f (plural cenas)

1. scene (location of an event that attracts attention)
2. (theater, film, television, radio) scene (part of a dramatic work)
3. (theater) stage

   Synonym: palco

   em cena ― on stage

4. scene (combination of objects or events in view or happening at a given moment at a particular place)
   • 2008 [1976], Sonia Coutinho, “Essas tardes de maio”, in Uma certa felicidade, 3rd edition, Rio de Janeiro: 7Letras, →ISBN, page 70:

     Sim, o tempo passando desfoca devagar as lentes da memória, embala-nos pouco a pouco, ao sabor dos incidentes cotidianos, deixo a firma, arranjo outro emprego e outro(s) homem(ns), as cenas antigas vão perdendo seu brilho, mas ainda lembro Rodrigo.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

5. (informal) scene (vague group of people with a uniting interest)
   • 2018 December 17, Claudia Beatriz Iaragnoit Villela, “Os 20 anos da Pulsação”, Claudia Bia, in O Município‎^[9], Brusque, archived from the original on 15 November 2024:

     Mais uma comemoração de ano redondo marcando este 2018. Desta vez, são os 20 anos da banda Pulsação, aquela que, alguns anos depois, preencheu o espaço vazio deixado pela cena do rock dos anos 80 de Brusque […]

     Another comemoration with a round-number year has marked 2018. This time, it's the 20 years of the Pulsação band, the one that, some years later, filled the empty space left by 80's rock scene in Brusque.

6. (Portugal, informal) thing

   Synonyms: coisa, (Brazil) negócio

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cena.

• “cena”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “cena”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• (Castelsardo) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛna/^[1]

cena f (plural ceni)

1. (dialectal) alternative form of zena (“dinner”)

• cijéna (Ijekavian)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *cěna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kainā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sěːna/
• Hyphenation: ce‧na

céna f (Cyrillic spelling це́на) (Ekavian)

1. price
2. value, worth

• cijeniti/ceniti

Inherited from Old Polish cena.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛ.na/

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• Rhymes: -ɛna
• Syllabification: ce‧na

cena f

1. price (cost required to gain possession of something)
   • 2018, Waldemar Szymczyk, editor, 9292‎^[10], →ISBN, archived from the original on 12 November 2022, page 22:

     Na fejsbuku to wy mi ceny jajec abo masła niy łobniżycie.

     You all won't lower the price of eggs or butter for me on Facebook.

Inherited from Old Slovak cena, from Proto-Slavic *cěna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kainā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sena/, [ˈt͡sena]
• Rhymes: -ena
• Hyphenation: ce‧na

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cena f (relational adjective cenový)

1. price
2. value (meaning of something)
3. reward, prize
4. (sports) trophy; competition

• “cena”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *cěna, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kainā́ˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂. First attested in the 16th century.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sèːna/

cẹ́na f

1. price (cost required to gain possession of something)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	céna
gen. sing.	céne
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	céna	céni	céne
genitive (rodȋlnik)	céne	cén	cén
dative (dajȃlnik)	céni	cénama	cénam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	céno	céni	céne
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	céni	cénah	cénah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	céno	cénama	cénami

• “cena”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “cena”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

• IPA^(key): /ˈθena/ [ˈθe.na] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsena/ [ˈse.na] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -ena
• Syllabification: ce‧na
• Homophone: (outside Spain) sena

Inherited from Latin cēna, from Proto-Italic *kertsnā, from Proto-Indo-European *kért-s-nh₂ (“portion”), from *ker-, *sker-.

cena f (plural cenas)

1. supper, dinner

cena

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

• “cena”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025