ciel

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

1. Alternative form of ceil

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

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

• IPA^(key): /sjɛl/

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ciel m (plural cieux or ciels)

1. sky
2. heaven

   On croyait au ciel. ― We believed in heaven.

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

• céleste

• Haitian Creole: syèl

ciel m (plural ciels)

1. canopy (of a bed, etc.)

ciel

1. heavens!

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

ciel m (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of cielo

• Cile, celi, elci

From Old French ciel, from Latin caelum.

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ciel m (plural cieux)

1. (Jersey) sky

• cel

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtsi͡ɛl/

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

1. heaven

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

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

ciel

1. second-person singular imperative of cielić

ciel (nominative plural ciels)

1. gill