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English

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Workers in Iraq using a cement mixer to make cement (sense 2)
Bags of cement (sense 1) used for building construction in Tunisia
Footprints and graffiti in freshly laid cement (sense 2) in London, United Kingdom

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Etymology

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *kh₂éydeti
Proto-Italic *kaidō
Latin caedō
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Latin caementum
Old French cimentbor.
Middle English syment
English cement

    From Middle English syment, cyment, from Old French ciment, from Latin caementum (“quarry stone; stone chips for making mortar”), from caedō (“to cut, hew”). Doublet of cementum.

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    cement (countable and uncountable, plural cements)

    1. (countable, uncountable) A powdered substance produced by firing (calcining) calcium carbonate (limestone) and clay that develops strong cohesive properties when mixed with water. The main ingredient of concrete.
      • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
        In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.
      • 2024 October 10, Tiana Milović et al., “Enhancing Compressive Strength of Cement by Indigenous Individual and Co-Culture Bacillus Bacteria”, in Materials‎[1], volume 17, number 20, →DOI, archived from the original on 24 February 2025:
        Indigenous bacteria, which naturally exist in specific environments, are being increasingly utilized in self-healing cement to promote calcite precipitation, a process that fills cracks and restores the material’s structural integrity [4,5].
    2. (uncountable) The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water, or the rock-like substance that forms when it dries.
    3. (uncountable) Any material with strong adhesive and cohesive properties such as binding agents, glues, grout.
    4. (figurative) A bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship or in society.
      the cement of our love
    5. (anatomy) The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; cementum.

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    Verb

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    cement (third-person singular simple present cements, present participle cementing, simple past and past participle cemented)

    1. (transitive) To affix with cement.
    2. (transitive) To overlay or coat with cement.
      to cement a cellar floor
    3. (transitive, figurative) To unite firmly or closely.
      • c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
        For they have entertained cause enough
        To draw their swords: but how the fear of us
        May cement their divisions and bind up
        The petty difference, we yet not know.
      • 1840, John Dunlop, The Universal Tendency to Association in Mankind. Analyzed and Illustrated, London: Houlston and Stoneman, page 103:
        Olympic Games. — Besides the ordinary confederacies that join independent states together, a singular federal bond is remarkable in the Olympic games, which for many ages cemented the Grecian commonwealths by a joint tie of recreation and religious ritual.
    4. (transitive, figurative) To repair.
      • 1785, Robert Burns, Scotch Drink:
        When neibors anger at a plea, / An' just as wud as wud can be, / How easy can the barley-bree / Cement the quarrel!
    5. (transitive, figurative) To make permanent.
      • 1758, David Hume, “Essay XXII. Of Polygamy and Divorces.”, in Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, new edition, London: Printed for A[ndrew] Millar, in the Strand; and A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, at Edinburgh, →OCLC, page 115:
        But friendſhip is a calm and ſedate affection, conducted by reaſon and cemented by habit; ſpringing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations; without jealouſies or fears; and without thoſe feveriſh fits of heat and cold, which cauſe ſuch an agreeable torment in the amorous paſſion.
      • 2016 March 27, Daniel Taylor, “Eric Dier seals England’s stunning comeback against Germany”, in The Guardian‎[2], London, archived from the original on 22 April 2016:
        [Dele] Alli’s ability to break forward from midfield was a prominent feature and the 19-year-old must have gone a long way to cementing his place in the team.
      • 2024 February 15, Fani Willis, 38:21 from the start, in See Fani Willis' entire defiant testimony in stunning courtroom moment‎[3], MSNBC, archived from the original on 16 February 2024:
        Me and Mr. Wade, we are good friends. My respect for him has grown over these seven weeks of attacks. We are very good friends. I think but for these attacks, it would have been a friendship that, as life goes, we would have stopped having. I think that you have cemented that we'll be friends to the day we die.

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    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-
    Proto-Indo-European *-eti
    Proto-Indo-European *kh₂éydeti
    Proto-Italic *kaidō
    Latin caedō
    Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
    Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
    Proto-Italic *-mentom
    Latin -mentum
    Latin caementum
    Old French cimentbor.
    Middle High German cē̆ment
    German Zementbor.
    Czech cement

      Borrowed from German Zement.

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      Noun

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      cement m inan

      1. cement

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      Declension of cement (hard masculine inanimate)
      singular plural
      nominative cement cementy
      genitive cementu cementů
      dative cementu cementům
      accusative cement cementy
      vocative cemente cementy
      locative cementu, cementě cementech
      instrumental cementem cementy
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      Danish

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      Etymology

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      From Latin caementum (“quarry stone; stone chips for making mortar”), from caedō (“to cut, hew”).

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      cement c

      1. cement

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      Declension of cement
      common
      gender       		singular plural
      indefinite definite indefinite definite
      nominative cement cementen cement cementene
      genitive cements cementens cements cementenes

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      Dutch

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      Etymology tree
      Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-
      Proto-Indo-European *-eti
      Proto-Indo-European *kh₂éydeti
      Proto-Italic *kaidō
      Latin caedō
      Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
      Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
      Proto-Italic *-mentom
      Latin -mentum
      Latin caementum
      Old French cimentbor.
      Middle Dutch ciment
      Dutch cement

        From Middle Dutch ciment, from Old French ciment, from Latin caementum.

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        cement n (uncountable, no diminutive)

        1. cement (powder, paste)

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        Hungarian

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         cement on Hungarian Wikipedia

        Etymology

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          Borrowed from German Zement, from Latin caementum (“quarry stone; stone chips for making mortar”), from caedō (“to cut, hew”).. First attested in 1778.[1]

          Pronunciation

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          • IPA(key): [ˈt͡sɛmɛnt]
          • Rhymes: -ɛnt
          • Hyphenation: ce‧ment

          Noun

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          cement (plural cementek)

          1. cement (powdered substance)

          Declension

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          Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
          singular plural
          nominative cement cementek
          accusative cementet cementeket
          dative cementnek cementeknek
          instrumental cementtel cementekkel
          causal-final cementért cementekért
          translative cementté cementekké
          terminative cementig cementekig
          essive-formal cementként cementekként
          essive-modal — —
          inessive cementben cementekben
          superessive cementen cementeken
          adessive cementnél cementeknél
          illative cementbe cementekbe
          sublative cementre cementekre
          allative cementhez cementekhez
          elative cementből cementekből
          delative cementről cementekről
          ablative cementtől cementektől
          non-attributive
          possessive – singular           		cementé cementeké
          non-attributive
          possessive – plural           		cementéi cementekéi
          Possessive forms of cement
          possessor single possession multiple possessions
          1st person sing. cementem cementjeim
          2nd person sing. cemented cementjeid
          3rd person sing. cementje cementjei
          1st person plural cementünk cementjeink
          2nd person plural cementetek cementjeitek
          3rd person plural cementjük cementjeik

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          1. ^ cement in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2025.

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          • cement in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
          • cement in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2026).

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          Noun

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          cement

          1. alternative form of syment

          Polish

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          Etymology

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          Etymology tree
          Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-
          Proto-Indo-European *-eti
          Proto-Indo-European *kh₂éydeti
          Proto-Italic *kaidō
          Latin caedō
          Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
          Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
          Proto-Italic *-mentom
          Latin -mentum
          Latin caementum
          Old French cimentbor.
          Middle High German cē̆ment
          German Zementbor.
          Polish cement

            Borrowed from German Zement.

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            cement m inan

            1. cement (powdered substance)
            2. cement (paste-like substance)

            Declension

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            Declension of cement
            singular
            nominative cement
            genitive cementu
            dative cementowi
            accusative cement
            instrumental cementem
            locative cemencie
            vocative cemencie

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            adjectives
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            Further reading

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            • “cement”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[4] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
            • “cement”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[5] (in Polish)

            Romanian

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            Etymology

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            Etymology tree
            Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-
            Proto-Indo-European *-eti
            Proto-Indo-European *kh₂éydeti
            Proto-Italic *kaidō
            Latin caedō
            Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
            Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
            Proto-Italic *-mentom
            Latin -mentum
            Latin caementumbor.
            French cémentbor.
            Romanian cement

              Borrowed from French cément.

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              cement n (plural cementuri)

              1. cementum

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              singular plural
              indefinite definite indefinite definite
              nominative-accusative cement cementul cementuri cementurile
              genitive-dative cement cementului cementuri cementurilor
              vocative cementule cementurilor

              Serbo-Croatian

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                Borrowed from German Zement, from Latin caementum (“quarry stone; stone chips for making mortar”), from caedō (“to cut, hew”).

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                • IPA(key): /t͡sěment/
                • Hyphenation: ce‧ment

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                cèment m inan (Cyrillic spelling цѐмент)

                1. cement

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                Declension of cement
                singular
                nominative cement
                genitive cementa
                dative cementu
                accusative cement
                vocative cemente
                locative cementu
                instrumental cementom

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                • “cement”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

                Slovak

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                Etymology

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                Etymology tree
                Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-
                Proto-Indo-European *-eti
                Proto-Indo-European *kh₂éydeti
                Proto-Italic *kaidō
                Latin caedō
                Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
                Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
                Proto-Italic *-mentom
                Latin -mentum
                Latin caementum
                Old French cimentbor.
                Middle High German cē̆ment
                German Zementbor.
                Slovak cement

                  Borrowed from German Zement.

                  Pronunciation

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                  • IPA(key): /t͡sement/, [ˈt͡sement]
                  • Rhymes: -ement
                  • Hyphenation: ce‧ment

                  Noun

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                  cement m inan

                  1. cement

                  Declension

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                  Declension of cement
                  (pattern dub)
                  singularplural
                  nominativecementcementy
                  genitivecementacementov
                  dativecementucementom
                  accusativecementcementy
                  locativecementecementoch
                  instrumentalcementomcementmi

                  Slovene

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                  Etymology

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                    Borrowed from German Zement, from Latin caementum (“quarry stone; stone chips for making mortar”), from caedō (“to cut, hew”).

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                    cemènt m inan

                    1. cement

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                    		 The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
                    Masculine inan., hard o-stem
                    nom. sing. cemènt
                    gen. sing. cemènta
                    singular dual plural
                    nominative
                    (imenovȃlnik)                     		cemènt cemènta cemènti
                    genitive
                    (rodȋlnik)                     		cemènta cemèntov cemèntov
                    dative
                    (dajȃlnik)                     		cemèntu cemèntoma cemèntom
                    accusative
                    (tožȋlnik)                     		cemènt cemènta cemènte
                    locative
                    (mẹ̑stnik)                     		cemèntu cemèntih cemèntih
                    instrumental
                    (orọ̑dnik)                     		cemèntom cemèntoma cemènti

                    Further reading

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                    • “cement” in Slovar slovenskega knjižnega jezika - portal BOS

                    Swedish

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                    Etymology

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                    From Latin caementum (“quarry stone; stone chips for making mortar”), from caedō (“to cut, hew”).

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                    cement c

                    1. cement

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                    Declension of cement
                    nominative genitive
                    singular indefinite cement cements
                    definite cementen cementens
                    plural indefinite — —
                    definite — —
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