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cer
sky /ˈtʃer/
noun#309 most common
Also: heaven, the heavens
Example sentences
Cerul este albastru.
The sky is blue.
Astăzi cerul este senin.
Today the sky is clear.
Norii acoperă cerul în fiecare seară.
Clouds cover the sky every evening.
Culoarea cerului se schimbă la apus.
The color of the sky changes at sunset.
Poetul a descris cerurile înstelate ale nopții de vară.
The poet described the starry skies of the summer night.
Filosofii antici credeau că cerul reflectă ordinea divină a universului.
Ancient philosophers believed the sky reflected the divine order of the universe.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cer | ceruri |
| Genitive | cerului | cerurilor |
| Accusative | cer | ceruri |
| Vocative | cer | ceruri |
Word family
cerescheavenly, celestial
cerurilethe skies (definite plural)
Împărăția cerurilorthe Kingdom of Heaven (biblical phrase)
cerul guriithe roof of the mouth (idiom)
Etymology
Cer comes from the Latin caelum, meaning sky or heaven. The word passed into Romanian with the regular sound changes that turned Latin ae into Romanian e and Latin c before front vowels into a soft sound written ce. It kept both its concrete sense, the visible sky, and its religious sense, heaven.
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