cette

== French == === Alternative forms === ceste, cête (obsolete) c'tte (colloquial) === Etymology === From Middle French ceste, from Old French ceste, from Vulgar Latin *ecce ista, feminine of *ecce iste. The loss of internal /s/ triggered compensatory lengthening of the preceding vowel. Due to the unstressed position of this pronoun, however, the length was soon lost again, which explains the spelling without a circumflex (though the form cête was occasionally used). Compare notre and le nôtre. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /sɛt/, (colloquial, fast speech) /st/ Homophones: cet, Cette, sept, set, Sète Rhymes: -ɛt === Determiner === cette f feminine singular of ce ==== Related terms ==== ce, c' cet, c't, c'tte === Further reading === “cette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkɛt.tɛ] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛt.te] === Verb === cette second-person plural present active imperative of cedo (“give (it) to me!”) === References === “cette”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “cette”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.