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

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/

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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): /t͡ɕɛl/
• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Syllabification: ciel

Verb

ciel

1. second-person singular imperative of cielić

Volapük

Noun

ciel (nominative plural ciels)

1. gill

Declension

declension of ciel

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

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