serif

See also: şerif and šerif

English

A serif font and a sans serif one.

Etymology

From earlier ceriph, ceref, of obscure derivation. There are two (not directly interrelated) candidates for a possible (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch origin: 1.) the noun schreef (“stroke”, now also “serif” as a semantic loan), related with schrapen (“to scrape”); and 2.) the verb schrafferen (“to provide with horizontal lines, to shade”), from Italian sgraffiare. For the latter, compare German Schraffe (“serif”), although this again may be a semantic loan based on the English word rather than original to it.

Noun

serif (plural serifs)

1. (typography) A short line added to the end of a stroke in traditional typefaces, such as Times New Roman.

Translations

short line in a font

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 襯線／衬线 (zh) (chènxiàn), 衬线 (zh) (chènxiàn)

• Dutch: schreef (nl)
• Finnish: pääteviiva (fi)
• French: empattement (fr) m
• German: Serife (de) f
• Greek: ακρεμόνας m (akremónas) (akremónas), πατούρα (el) f (patoúra) (patúra)
• Hungarian: betűtalp
• Irish: seiríf f, trasnán m (dated)
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• Italian: grazia (it) f
• Japanese: セリフ (serifu)
• Korean: 세리프 (seripeu)
• Lithuanian: užkardėlė f
• Macedonian: се́риф m (sérif)
• Norwegian: serif
• Polish: szeryf (pl) m
• Portuguese: serifa (pt) f
• Russian: засе́чка (ru) f (zaséčka), подсе́чка (ru) f (podséčka), отсе́чка (ru) f (otséčka), сери́ф (ru) m (seríf)
• Spanish: gracia (es) f, remate (es) m, serifa (es) f, patín (es) m

Adjective

serif (not comparable)

1. (typography) Of a typeface, provided with serifs.

Antonyms

• sans serif

Translations

with serifs

• Finnish: päätteellinen
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• Hungarian: talpas (hu)

Anagrams

• Fries, fiers, fires, fries