certe

See also: çerte, čerte, and черте

Esperanto

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡serte]
• Rhymes: -erte
• Hyphenation: cer‧te

Adverb

certe

1. certainly; surely
   • Vinko Ošlak, La malbabela jaro,

     Pinoĉeto certe estas diktatoro, sed nur amatoreca kompare kun tiuj, kiuj volas lin anstataŭigi.

     Pinochet is certainly a dictator, but only an amateurish one compared with those who want to replace him.

Ido

Etymology

From certa +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ser.te/

Adverb

certe

1. certainly

Related terms

• certajo (“certainty (something certain)”)
• certeso (“certainty”)
• certeskar (“to certify”)
• certigar (“to certify, ensure”)
• necerta (“uncertain, unsettle, not determined, dubious, precarious, unsteady”)

Italian

Adjective

certe f pl

1. feminine plural of certo

Anagrams

• cetre, crete

Latin

Etymology

From certus (“certain”) +‎ -ē (“-ly”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈker.teː/, [ˈkɛrt̪eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃer.te/, [ˈt͡ʃɛrt̪e]

Adverb

certē (comparative certius, superlative certissimē)

1. certainly, surely
2. at any rate, at least

Synonyms

• certō, profectō

References

• “certe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “certe”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• certe in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • I know for a fact: certo (certe) scio (Arch. 12. 32)
    

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃerte]

Verb

certe

1. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of certa