Serapis

See also: Sérapis

English

Alternative forms

• Sarapis

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Serāpis, from Ancient Greek Σάρᾱπις (Sárāpis), from Egyptian wsjr-ḥp, from wsjr (“Osiris”) + ḥp (“Apis”).

Proper noun

Serapis

1. A Graeco-Egyptian god devised during the 3rd century BC as a means to unify the Greeks and Egyptians in the realm of Ptolemy I.

Derived terms

• Serapic

Related terms

• Serapeum

Translations

Graeco-Egyptian god

• Bactrian: Ϲαραπο (Sarapo)
• Coptic: ⲥⲉⲣⲁⲡⲓⲥ (serapis)
• Egyptian: (wsjr-ḥp)
• French: Sérapis (fr) m
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: Σᾰ́ρᾱπῐς m (Sắrāpĭs)

• Koine Greek: Σέραπις (Sérapis)
• Latin: Serapis m
• Minaean: 𐩱𐩻𐩧𐩢𐩰 (ʾṯrḥf)

Anagrams

• Parsies, Paressi, Parises, spireas, paresis, praises, aspires, Arispes

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σάρᾱπις (Sárāpis) (later Σέρᾱπις (Sérāpis)), from Egyptian wsjr-ḥp.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɛˈraː.pɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [seˈraː.pis]

Proper noun

Serāpis m sg (genitive Serāpidis or Serāpis); third declension

1. (Egyptian mythology) Serapis, an Egyptian god.

Declension

Third-declension noun (imparisyllabic non-i-stem or i-stem; two different stems), singular only.

	singular
nominative	Serāpis
genitive	Serāpidis Serāpis
dative	Serāpidī Serāpī
accusative	Serāpidem Serāpem
ablative	Serāpide Serāpe
vocative	Serāpis

Derived terms

• Serāpēum
• Serāpicus

Descendants

• English: Serapis, m
• French: Sérapis, m

See also

• Serapis on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la

References

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