serus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-ro-. Cognate with Old Irish sír.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈseː.rus/, [ˈseː.rʊs]

Adjective

sērus (feminine sēra, neuter sērum); first/second declension

1. late, too late
2. slow, tardy

Inflection

First/second declension.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
nominative	sērus	sēra	sērum		sērī	sērae	sēra
genitive	sērī	sērae	sērī		sērōrum	sērārum	sērōrum
dative	sērō		sērō		sērīs
accusative	sērum	sēram	sērum		sērōs	sērās	sēra
ablative	sērō	sērā	sērō		sērīs
vocative	sēre	sēra	sērum		sērī	sērae	sēra

• comparative: sērior, superlative: sērissimus

Synonyms

• (late): tardus
• (slow): lentus, tardus

Derived terms

• sēritās
• sērō
• sērōtinus

Descendants

• Aromanian: searã
• Asturian: sero
• Dalmatian: saira
• French: soir
• Friulian: sere
• Italian: sera
• Norman: sei
• Occitan: ser, seir, soir

• Portuguese: serão
• Romanian: seară
• Romansch: saira, sera, seira
• Sardinian: sera, sero
• Sicilian: sira
• Spanish: sera
• Venetian: séra
• Slovak: serus

References

• serus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• serus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “serus” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill