different between mien vs cien

English

Etymology

From French mine (whence also Danish mine and German Miene), appearance, perhaps from Breton min (“face of an animal”), or from Latin minio (“to redden”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?n/
• Rhymes: -i?n
• Homophone: mean

Noun

mien (countable and uncountable, plural miens)

1. (countable, uncountable) Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.
   • 1856, Joseph Turnley, The Language of the Eye, p. 111:

     Beauty, like all divine gifts, is everywhere to be seen by the eye of the faithful admirer of nature; and, like all spirits, she is scarcely to be described by words. Her countenance and mien, her path, her hue and carriage, often surpass expression, and soothe the enthusiast into reverie and silence.

   • 2015, Siobhan Roberts, John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic mathematician, in: The Guardian, July 23rd 2015

     Although still young at heart and head, he looks more and more like his old friend Archimedes, increasingly bearded and increasingly grey, with an otherworldly mien – a look that should earn him a spot in the online quiz featuring portraits of frumpy old men under the rubric “Prof or Hobo?”

2. (countable) A specific facial expression.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Emin, Mine, mine

French

Etymology

From Middle French mien, from Old French meon, from Latin meum, the neuter of meus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mj??/

Adjective

mien (feminine singular mienne, masculine plural miens, feminine plural miennes)

1. (archaic) my

Derived terms

• le mien (“mine”)

See also

• mon, ma, mes

Further reading

• “mien” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• mine, miné

Old French

Etymology

Latin meum.

Adjective

mien

1. (stressed) my; mine

Usage notes

• chiefly used after an article (un, le, etc.) and before a noun. The noun may be omitted if clear from the context

Descendants

• French: mien

Pitcairn-Norfolk

Etymology

From English main.

Adjective

mien

1. main

Plautdietsch

Pronoun

mien

1. my

See also

• dien (your, thy)
• sien (his)
• mie (me)
• ons (our)
• onsa (us)

Further reading

• Plautdietsch Lexicon of 17,000 words

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /min/

Determiner

mien

1. feminine of min
2. neuter of min
3. plural of min

References

• “mien” in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi??n/

Noun

mien

1. genitive plural of mena

Noun

mien

1. genitive plural of meno

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Noun

mien f

1. carrot

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian gem?ne, from Proto-West Germanic *gamain?, from Proto-Germanic *gamainiz, from Proto-Indo-European *?om-moynis. Cognate with German gemein, English mean, Gothic ???????????????????????????? (gamains) and Latin comm?nis.

Adjective

mien

1. common, communal
2. common, everyday
3. general

Inflection

Derived terms

• mienskip

Further reading

• “mien”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Noun

cien

1. Obsolete spelling of scion

Anagrams

• Ince, NICE, Nice, Niec, cine, cine-, icen, nice

Asturian

Alternative forms

• cientu (combining form only)

Etymology

From cientu, from Old Leonese, from Latin centum.

Numeral

cien (indeclinable)

1. one-hundred; 100

   cien llobos — one hundred wolves

   cien vaques — one hundred cows

Usage notes

The indeclinable form cien means "one hundred" only. To say "one hundred one", the combining form cientu is used, as cientu un. Likewise, "one hundred thirty" is cientu trenta, and "one hundred fifty-four" is cientu cincuenta y cuatro.

Derived terms

• centenu

Mirandese

Etymology

From Old Leonese, from Latin centum.

Numeral

cien

1. one-hundred

Spanish

Etymology

From ciento, from Latin centum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /??jen/, [??j?n]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?sjen/, [?sj?n]
• Homophone: sien (non-Castilian dialects)
• Rhymes: -en

Number

cien (apocopate cardinal numeral, plural cienes, standard form ciento)

1. Apocopic form of ciento (one-hundred (100))

Usage notes

• When used as an adjective, the form cien is used only before the noun it modifies. In other positions as an adjective, the standard form ciento is used instead.
• In composite numbers, the form cien is used before larger numbers components, ciento before smaller numbers.

cien mil pesos – “a hundred thousand pesos” ($100,000)

ciento noventa pesos – “a hundred ninety pesos” ($190)

• When used substantively to indicate the number 100 itself, cien is more common in modern usage:

los números de uno hasta el cien – “the numbers from one to a hundred”

hay dos cienes en el papel – “there are two hundreds on the paper” (two occurrences of the number one hundred)

• In the indefinite sense, ciento is used:

cientos de pesos – “hundreds of pesos”

• To indicate percentages, ciento is usually used, with regional exceptions, especially for 100%:

cincuenta por ciento – “fifty percent”

cien por cien – “a hundred percent”

ciento por ciento – “a hundred percent”

Derived terms

• de todo a cien
• cien millones
• cien por ciento
• todo a cien
• doscientos m (“two hundred”), doscientas f
• trescientos m (“three hundred”), doscientas f
• cuatrocientos m (“four hundred”), cuatrocientas f
• quinientos m (“five hundred”), quinientas f
• seiscientos (“six hundred”), seiscientas f
• setecientos m (“seven hundred”), setecientas f
• ochocientos (“eight hundred”), ochocientas f
• novecientos m (“nine hundred”), novecientas f

Related terms

• ciento
• cientos
• por cien

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: siyen
• ? Taos: si?en, si?en?

Zhuang

Etymology

Borrowed from Chinese ? (MC t?s?en).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /?i?n??/
• Tone numbers: cien¹
• Hyphenation: cien

Numeral

cien (old orthography cien)

1. thousand