serus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *sēros, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“long, lasting”). Cognate with Old Irish sír, Welsh hwyr. See also sērius.^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈseː.rus/, [ˈs̠eːrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.rus/, [ˈsɛːrus]

Adjective

sērus (feminine sēra, neuter sērum, comparative sērior, superlative sērissimus, adverb sērō); first/second-declension adjective

1. late, too late

   Synonym: tardus

2. slow, tardy

   Synonyms: lentus, tardus, languidus

   Antonyms: rapidus, vēlōx, levis, celer, properus, promptus, facilis

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	sērus	sēra	sērum		sērī	sērae	sēra
genitive	sērī	sērae	sērī		sērōrum	sērārum	sērōrum
dative	sērō	sērae	sērō		sērīs
accusative	sērum	sēram	sērum		sērōs	sērās	sēra
ablative	sērō	sērā	sērō		sērīs
vocative	sēre	sēra	sērum		sērī	sērae	sēra

Derived terms

• sēritās
• sērō
• sērōtinus

Descendants

• Aromanian: searã, siare
• Asturian: sero
• Dalmatian: saira
• Emilian: sîra
• Friulian: sere
• Istro-Romanian: serĕ
• Italian: sera
• Megleno-Romanian: seară, sęră
• Norman: sei
• Occitan: ser, seir, soir
• Old French: soir
  • French: soir
  • Norman: sei
  • Picard: soir
• Old Galician-Portuguese: serão
  • Galician: serán, seram, serão (reintegrationist)
    • → Portuguese: sarau
  • Portuguese: serão
• Romanian: seară
• Romansch: saira, sera, seira
• Sardinian: sera, sero
• Sicilian: sira
• Venetan: séra
• → Slovak: serus

References

• “serus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “serus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• serus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sērus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 558

Latvian

Noun

serus m

1. accusative plural of sers