serius
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *swerjos, from Proto-Indo-European *swer-yo-s, from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“heavy”). Cognate with Old English swǣr (“heavy, grave, grievous”), German schwer (“hard, difficult, heavy”), Lithuanian sverti (“to weigh, balance”), svarùs (“heavy”). More at sweer.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈseː.ri.us/, [ˈs̠eːriʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈse.ri.us/, [ˈsɛːrius]
Adjective
sērius (feminine sēria, neuter sērium); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | sērius | sēria | sērium | sēriī | sēriae | sēria | |
Genitive | sēriī | sēriae | sēriī | sēriōrum | sēriārum | sēriōrum | |
Dative | sēriō | sēriō | sēriīs | ||||
Accusative | sērium | sēriam | sērium | sēriōs | sēriās | sēria | |
Ablative | sēriō | sēriā | sēriō | sēriīs | |||
Vocative | sērie | sēria | sērium | sēriī | sēriae | sēria |
Derived terms
Adverb
sērius
References
- “serius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “serius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- serius 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)
- serius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- two days late: biduo serius
- (ambiguous) to say in earnest..: serio dicere (Plaut. Bacch. 1. 1. 42)
- two days late: biduo serius
- “serious”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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