celeste

Borrowed from French céleste (“heavenly”), from Latin caelestis.

• (US) IPA^(key): /səˈlɛst/

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• Rhymes: -ɛst

celeste (countable and uncountable, plural celestes)

1. (music) Alternative form of celesta, a musical instrument.
2. (music) An organ stop, deliberately slightly out of tune to give an undulating sound.
3. (heraldry) Bleu celeste.

• bleu celeste

Borrowed from Latin caelestis.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [səˈles.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [seˈles.te]

celeste m (plural celestes)

1. celesta

celeste m or f (masculine and feminine plural celestes)

1. celestial; heavenly

• cos celeste

• cel

• “celeste” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “celeste”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “celeste” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “celeste” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃeˈleste/
• Hyphenation: ce‧les‧te

celeste (plural celesti)

1. Alternative form of celestu

• “celestu, celeste, cilestu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Learned borrowing from Latin caelestis.

celeste m or f (plural celestes)

1. celestial
2. heavenly

celeste m or f by sense (plural celestes)

1. (soccer) A fan, player, or other person associated with Celta de Vigo, a football team from the Spanish town of Vigo

• celtista

From Latin caelestis.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃeˈlɛ.ste/

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• Rhymes: -ɛste
• Hyphenation: ce‧lè‧ste

celeste (plural celesti)

1. celestial
2. heavenly
3. pale blue, sky blue

• celestiale
• sopracceleste
• volta celeste

celeste m (plural celesti)

1. pale blue, sky blue

From Old French celeste, borrowed from Latin caelestis.

celeste m or f (plural celestes)

1. celestial; heavenly

• French: céleste

Borrowed from Latin caelestis.

celeste m (oblique and nominative feminine singular celeste)

1. celestial; heavenly

• Middle French: celeste
  • French: céleste

From Old Galician-Portuguese celeste, borrowed from Latin caelestis (“celestial”), from caelum (“sky”).

• Homophone: Celeste
• Hyphenation: ce‧les‧te

celeste m or f (plural celestes)

1. celestial (relating to the sky)
2. (astronomy) celestial (relating to space)

   Synonyms: espacial, sideral, sidéreo, sidérico

3. (religion) heavenly (relating to heaven)

   Synonym: celestial

4. sky blue (of a pale blue colour, like that of the sky on a fine day)

   Synonyms: cerúleo, cérulo

• (heavenly): infernal, terreno

• celestial
• céu

Borrowed from Latin caelestis.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θeˈleste/ [θeˈles.t̪e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /seˈleste/ [seˈles.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -este
• Syllabification: ce‧les‧te

celeste m or f (masculine and feminine plural celestes)

1. pale blue, sky blue
2. heavenly

celeste m (plural celestes)

1. pale blue, sky blue

celeste m or f by sense (plural celestes)

1. (soccer) a fan, player, or other person associated with Celta de Vigo, a football team from the Spanish town of Vigo

   Synonym: celtista

2. (soccer) the nickname for the Uruguay National Football Team

• “celeste”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28