serene

See also: Serene, serené, and Serēnē

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈɹiːn/　
• IPA^(key): /səˈɹin/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iːn

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

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

1. Peaceful, calm, unruffled.

   She looked at her students with joviality and a serene mentality.

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     Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.

2. Without worry or anxiety; unaffected by disturbance.
3. (archaic) fair and unclouded (as of the sky); clear; unobscured.
   • (Can we date this quote by Alexander Pope and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     The moon serene in glory mounts the sky.

   • (Can we date this quote by Thomas Gray and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Full many a gem of purest ray serene / The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.

   • 1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 6, in http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/shelley/mary/s53f/chapter6.html Frankenstein]:

     A serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstasy.

4. Used as part of certain titles, originally to indicate sovereignty or independence.

   Her Serene Highness

Related terms

• serenity

Translations

peaceful, calm

• Armenian: խաղաղ (hy) (xaġaġ), անդորր (hy) (andorr)
• Aromanian: sirin
• Belarusian: ціхамі́рны (cixamírny), спако́йны (spakójny)
• Catalan: serè (ca)
• Cebuano: tin-od, tinong
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: klidný (cs) m
• Dalmatian: saran
• Finnish: seesteinen (fi), rauhallinen (fi), tyyni (fi)
• French: serein (fr) m, sereine (fr) f
• Friulian: seren
• German: gelassen (de), ruhig (de)
• Hungarian: derűs (hu)
• Indonesian: tenteram (id)
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• 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)
• Korean: 고요하다 (ko) (goyohada)
• Latin: serēnus
• Occitan: seren
• Polish: spokojny (pl), opanowany (pl), niewzruszony (pl)
• Portuguese: sereno (pt)
• Romanian: senin (ro)
• Russian: безмяте́жный (ru) (bezmjatéžnyj), споко́йный (ru) (spokójnyj)
• Sardinian: assulenu, selenu
• Spanish: sereno (es)
• Swedish: fridfull (sv), lugn (sv)
• Ukrainian: безтурбо́тний (uk) (bezturbótnyj), спокі́йний (spokíjnyj)
• Walloon: etait (wa) m, etaite (wa) f, påjhire (wa) m or f, li cour etait (wa)

fair and unclouded

• Armenian: հստակ (hy) (hstak), ջինջ (hy) (ǰinǰ), պարզ (hy) (parz), պայծառ (hy) (paycaṙ), անամպ (hy) (anamp)
• Aromanian: sirin
• Cebuano: tilha
• Chinese:

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• Finnish: seesteinen (fi), pilvetön (fi), kirkas (fi)
• French: serein (fr) m, sereine (fr) f
• Italian: sereno (it)
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• Japanese: 晴れた (ja) (はれた, hareta)
• Latin: serēnus
• Polish: pogodny (pl)
• Portuguese: sereno (pt)
• Romanian: senin (ro)
• Russian: чи́стый (ru) (čístyj), безо́блачный (ru) (bezóblačnyj), я́сный (ru) (jásnyj)
• Spanish: sereno (es) m
• Walloon: clair (wa) m, claire (wa) f, sins ene barbôjhe

part of royal title

• Chinese:

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• Czech: jasný (cs) m
• Finnish: kuninkaallinen (fi), keisarillinen (fi) (etc., according to the rank of the dignitary)
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• Polish: najjaśniejszy
• Russian: светлость (ru) n (svetlostʹ)
• Spanish: sereno (es) m

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Translations to be checked

• (deprecated template usage) Italian: sereno m, serena f
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• Latin: ^{(please verify)} serenus

Verb

1. (transitive) To make serene.
   • (Can we date this quote by Thomson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

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

Noun

serene (plural serenes)

1. (poetic) Serenity; clearness; calmness.
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     the serene of heaven

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     To their master is denied / To share their sweet serene.

2. Evening air; night chill.
   • (Can we date this quote by Ben Jonson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Some serene blast me.

Etymology 2

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French serein (“evening”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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.

Anagrams

• reseen

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

serene

1. (deprecated template usage) Inflected form of sereen

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Esperanto

Etymology

serena +‎ -e

Adverb

serene

1. calmly, serenely

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Italian

Adjective

serene

1. feminine plural of sereno

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Latin

Etymology 1

From serēnus +‎ -ē.

Adverb

serēnē (comparative serēnius, superlative serēnissimē)

1. clearly, brightly

Etymology 2

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) serēne

1. vocative masculine singular of serēnus

References

• “serene”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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Spanish

Verb

serene

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.