Seres

See also: seres, and sereš

Icelandic

Proper noun

Seres f

1. Ceres (dwarf planet)

See also

Solar System in Icelandic · Sólkerfið (layout · text)
Star	Sólin
IAU planets and notable dwarf planets	Merkúr	Venus	Jörðin	Mars	Seres	Júpíter	Satúrnus	Úranus	Neptúnus	Plútó	Eris
Notable moons	—	—	Tunglið	Fóbos Deimos	—	Íó Evrópa Ganýmedes Kallistó	Mímas Enkeladus Teþis Díóne Rea Títan Japetus	Míranda Aríel Úmbríel Títanía Óberon	Tríton	Karon	Dysnómía

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Σῆρες (Sêres, “the Chinese; China, the land of the Chinese”), plural of Σήρ (Sḗr), possibly from Old Chinese 絲 (*[s]ə, “silk”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈseː.reːs/, [ˈs̠eːreːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.res/, [ˈsɛːres]

Proper noun

Sērēs m pl (genitive Sērum); third declension (singular Sēr)

1. (usually in the plural) The northern Chinese people reached via the overland Silk Road to Chang'an (Xi'an), unknown at the time to be related to the Sinae reached via the maritime Silk Road to Panyu (Guangzhou).

Declension

Third-declension noun, plural only.

	plural
nominative	Sērēs
genitive	Sērum
dative	Sēribus
accusative	Sērēs
ablative	Sēribus
vocative	Sērēs

Derived terms

• sēricus

Related terms

• Sēra, Sēra Mētropolis
• Sērica

Descendants

• Portuguese: Seres
• Spanish: Seres

See also

• Sīnae

References

• “Seres”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Seres in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.