ciel

See also: cièl, cieľ, ĉiel, and -ciel

English

Verb

ciel (third-person singular simple present ciels, present participle cieling, simple past and past participle cieled)

1. Alternative form of ceil

Anagrams

• -icle, Celi, ICLE, ILEC, Icel., ceil, lice

Aragonese

Alternative forms

• cielo

Etymology

Inherited from Navarro-Aragonese ciel, cielo, from Latin caelum, from Proto-Italic *kailom, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂i-lom (“whole”), from *keh₂i-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθjel/
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: ciel

Noun

ciel m (plural ciels)

1. sky
2. heaven

References

• Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA)
• Ortografía de l'aragonés

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French ciel, from Latin caelum, from Proto-Italic *kailom, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂i-lom (“whole”), from *keh₂i-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sjɛl/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Paris):

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Noun

ciel m (plural cieux or ciels)

1. sky
2. heaven

   On croyait au ciel. ― We believed in heaven.

Usage notes

In poetic or religious senses, often in the plural: Notre Père qui es aux cieux... ― Our Father who art in heaven...

Derived terms

• à ciel ouvert
• aide-toi, le ciel t’aidera
• aiguilleur du ciel
• au nom du ciel
• bleu ciel
• dieux du ciel
• don du ciel
• Fils du Ciel
• goûter le ciel
• juste ciel
• lever les yeux au ciel
• l’argent ne tombe pas du ciel
• pour l’amour du ciel
• remuer ciel et terre
• septième ciel
• tomber du ciel

 

Related terms

• céleste

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: syèl

Noun

ciel m (plural ciels)

1. canopy (of a bed, etc.)

Interjection

ciel

1. heavens!

Further reading

• “ciel”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

ciel m (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of cielo

Anagrams

• Cile, celi, elci

Norman

Etymology

From Old French ciel, from Latin caelum.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey):

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Noun

ciel m (plural cieux)

1. (Jersey) sky

Old French

Alternative forms

• cel

Etymology

From Latin caelum. The nominative singular derives from attested Vulgar Latin caelus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtsi͡ɛl/

Noun

ciel oblique singular, m (oblique plural cieus or ciex or ciels, nominative singular cieus or ciex or ciels, nominative plural ciel)

1. heaven

Descendants

• Bourguignon: cier
• French: ciel
  • Haitian Creole: syèl
• Norman: ciel, cyil, cyi, syel
• Walloon: cir

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ɕɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Syllabification: ciel

Verb

ciel

1. second-person singular imperative of cielić

Volapük

Noun

ciel (nominative plural ciels)

1. gill

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	ciel	ciels
genitive	ciela	cielas
dative	ciele	cieles
accusative	cieli	cielis
vocative 1	o ciel!	o ciels!
predicative 2	cielu	cielus

declension of ciel

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only