-cen

From canō (“I sing”, “I play [a musical instrument]”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ken/, [kɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃen/, [t͡ʃɛn]

-cen m (genitive -cinis); third declension

1. appended to the names of musical instruments, forming agent nouns denoting the players thereof

   cicūticen, citharicen, cornicen, fidicen, liticen, lyricen, tībīcen, tubicen

2. (in a weakened sense) appended to various parts of speech, forming nouns denoting musicians or “singers” of whatever kind (human or not)

   oscen, psalmicen, siticen

Third-declension noun.

• “-cen” on page 296/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

• -ċin

From Proto-West Germanic *-ikīn, *-ukīn, equivalent to -uc + -en. Cognate with Old Norse -ki. More at -kin.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃen/

-ċen

1. suffix forming diminutives from nouns, often displaying i-mutation

   tynċen ― small barrel, cask

   tiċċen ― young goat, goatling

   þyrnċen ― thistle

• Middle English: -chen

From Ancient Greek καινός (kainós).

• IPA^(key): /t͡sɛn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛn
• Syllabification: cen

-cen m inan

1. -cene

   ‎eo- + ‎-cen → ‎eocen

• ceno-

• -cen in Polish dictionaries at PWN