cerne
Spanish, adjective
cerne is a Spanish feminine adjective meaning “hard (wood)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, cerné is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of cerner”.
What does cerne mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininemasculinehard (wood)
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of cerner
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Parte más dura y sana del tronco de los árboles, que se prefiere para las artes y construcciones de importancia.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cerne
- cernes feminine masculine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is cerne in Spanish?
cerne appears about once in every 33 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).