sericus
Latin
Etymology
From Sēres.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈseː.ri.kus/, [ˈs̠eːrɪkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈse.ri.kus/, [ˈsɛːrikus]
Adjective
sēricus (feminine sērica, neuter sēricum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | sēricus | sērica | sēricum | sēricī | sēricae | sērica | |
| Genitive | sēricī | sēricae | sēricī | sēricōrum | sēricārum | sēricōrum | |
| Dative | sēricō | sēricō | sēricīs | ||||
| Accusative | sēricum | sēricam | sēricum | sēricōs | sēricās | sērica | |
| Ablative | sēricō | sēricā | sēricō | sēricīs | |||
| Vocative | sērice | sērica | sēricum | sēricī | sēricae | sērica | |
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- English: seric, silk
- Galician: sirgo
- Italian: serico
- Old Galician-Portuguese: sirgo
- Portuguese: sirgo, sérico
- Spanish: sirgo, sérico
References
- “sericus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sericus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)