serra

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See also: Serra and serrá

English

Etymology

Latin serra

Noun

serra (plural serrae)

  1. A saw, or saw-like part.

Anagrams

Asturian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin serra.

Noun

serra f (plural serres)

  1. saw (tool)

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Catalan

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

serra f (plural serres)

  1. saw (tool)
  2. sierra, mountain range

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Further reading

French

Pronunciation

Verb

serra

  1. third-person singular past historic of serrer

Anagrams

Galician

Serra do Xurés or do Gerês, in between Galicia and Portugal
Serra da Lastra
Serra do Courel

Etymology 1

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese serra, from Latin serra. Cognate with Portuguese serra and Spanish sierra.

Pronunciation

Noun

serra f (plural serras)

  1. saw
  2. (geography) sierra, mountain range
    Synonym: cordal
  3. (geography) highland
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

From Latin sera.

Pronunciation

Noun

serra f (plural serras)

  1. bolt; bar for fastening doors
    Synonyms: ferrollo, tranca

References

Italian

Etymology

From serrare.

Noun

serra f (plural serre)

  1. greenhouse, glasshouse

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Verb

serra

  1. third-person singular present indicative of serrare
  2. second-person singular imperative of serrare

Latin

trēs serrae (three saws)

Etymology

According to De Vaan, from an e-grade derivative from Proto-Indo-European *sers- (“to cut off”), from which he also notes Schrijver's derivation of sarrio from a zero-grade of such a root.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

serra f (genitive serrae); first declension

  1. a saw (tool)
  2. a kind of sawfish
  3. (military) a serrated battle order

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative serra serrae
Genitive serrae serrārum
Dative serrae serrīs
Accusative serram serrās
Ablative serrā serrīs
Vocative serra serrae

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Descendants

  • Albanian: sharrë (disputed)
  • Aromanian: sharã
  • Asturian: serra
  • Basque: zerra
  • Catalan: serra
  • Galician: serra

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References

  • “serra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “serra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • serra 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)
  • serra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “serra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “serra”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “serra”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 558

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese serra, from Latin serra.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: ser‧ra

Noun

serra f (plural serras)

  1. saw (tool)
  2. chain (of mountains)

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Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin serra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛʐ.ʐa/
  • Hyphenation: sèr‧ra

Noun

serra f (plural serri)

  1. saw

Derived terms

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