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

1. grave, earnest, serious

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
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

• sēriōsus

Adverb

sērius

1. comparative degree of sērō

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)
    
• “serious”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.