serene

See also Serene

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English, from Latin serēnus (“clear, cloudless, untroubled”).

Pronunciation

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  Rhymes: -iːn

Adjective

serene (comparative more serene or serener, superlative most serene or serenest)

1. Peaceful, calm, unruffled.
2. without worry or anxiety; unaffected by disturbance.
3. (archaic) (Of the sky) fair and unclouded.
   • 1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 6, Frankenstein^[1]:

     A serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstasy.

4. Used as part of certain titles.

   Her Serene Highness

Related terms

• serenity

Translations

peaceful, calm

• Armenian: խաղաղ (hy) (xaġaġ), անդորր (hy) (andorr)
• Aromanian: sirin (rup)
• Catalan: serè (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平靜 (cmn), 平静 (cmn) (píngjìng), 寧靜 (cmn), 宁静 (cmn) (níngjìng), 安詳 (cmn), 安详 (cmn) (ānxiáng)

• Dalmatian: saran
• Finnish: seesteinen (fi), rauhallinen (fi), tyyni (fi)
• French: serein (fr)
• Friulian: seren

• German: gelassen (de), ruhig (de)
• Italian: sereno (it)
• Japanese: 静かな (ja) (しずかな, shizuka na), 平静な (ja) (へいせいな, heisei na)
• Latin: serēnus (la)
• Occitan: seren (oc)
• Polish: spokojny (pl), opanowany (pl), niewzruszony (pl)
• Romanian: senin (ro)
• Russian: безмятежный (ru) (bezmjatéžnyj), спокойный (ru) (spokójnyj)
• Sardinian: assulenu (sc), selenu (sc)
• Swedish: fridfull (sv), lugn (sv)

fair and unclouded

• Armenian: հստակ (hy) (hstak), ջինջ (hy) (ǰinǰ), պարզ (hy) (parz), պայծառ (hy) (payçaṙ), անամպ (hy) (anamp)
• Aromanian: sirin (rup)
• Finnish: seesteinen (fi), pilvetön (fi), kirkas (fi)
• French: serein (fr)
• Japanese: 晴れた (ja) (はれた, hareta)

• Latin: serēnus (la)
• Polish: pogodny (pl)
• Romanian: senin (ro)
• Russian: чистый (ru) (čístyj), безоблачный (ru) (bezóblačnyj), ясный (ru) (jásnyj)

part of royal title

• Polish: najjaśniejszy (pl)

• Russian: светлость (ru) (svetlostʹ) n

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Translations to be checked

• French: serein m, sereine f
• Italian: sereno m, serena f
• Latin: serenus

• Portuguese: serenidade

Verb

serene (third-person singular simple present serenes, present participle serening, simple past and past participle serened)

1. (transitive) To make serene.

   Heaven and earth, as if contending, vie / To raise his being, and serene his soul. — Thomson.

Etymology 2

Old French serein (“evening”), Vulgar Latin *serānum — from substantive use of sērum, neuter of sērus (“late”) + -ānus suffix.

Noun

serene (plural serenes)

1. A fine rain from a cloudless sky after sunset.

Synonyms

• serein

References

• Oxford English Dictionary. serein n. 1.

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Dutch

Adjective

serene

1. the inflected form^FAQ of sereen

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Italian

Adjective

serene f

1. Feminine plural form of sereno

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Latin

Adjective

serēne

1. vocative masculine singular of serēnus

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Spanish

Verb

serene (infinitive serenar)

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of serenar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of serenar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of serenar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of serenar.