sr

See also: Sr, SR, .sr, sr., and Sr.

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of steradian

Symbol

sr

1. (SI units) steradian (for measuring solid angles)

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Abinomn

Noun

sr

1. sun

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Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: ser

Verb

 2-lit.

1. (transitive) to predict, to foretell
   • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 30–32:

     sr.sn ḏꜥ nj jjt nšnj nj ḫprt.f

     They could predict a stormwind before it came or a thunderstorm before it happened.

Inflection

Conjugation of sr (biliteral / 2-lit. / 2rad.) — base stem: sr, geminated stem: srr

infinitival forms			imperative
infinitive	negatival complement	complementary infinitive1	singular	plural
sr	srw, sr	srt	sr, j.sr	sr, j.sr

‘pseudoverbal’ forms
stative stem	periphrastic imperfective2		periphrastic prospective2
sr	ḥr sr	m sr	r sr

suffix conjugation
aspect / mood	active	passive	contingent
			aspect / mood	active	passive
perfect	sr.n	srw, sr	consecutive	sr.jn	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
terminative	srt
perfective3	sr	active + .tj1, .tw2	obligative1	sr.ḫr	active + .tj1, .tw2
imperfective	sr, j.sr1	active + .tj1, .tw2
prospective3	sr	srr	potentialis1	sr.kꜣ	active + .tj1, .tw2
		active + .tj1, .tw2
subjunctive	sr, j.sr1	active + .tj1, .tw2

verbal adjectives
aspect / mood	relative (incl. nominal / emphatic) forms		participles
	active	passive	active	passive
perfect	sr.n	active + .tj1, .tw2	—	—
perfective	sr	active + .tj1, .tw2	sr	srr, srrj6, sr2, srw2 5, sry2 5
imperfective	j.sr1, sr, sry, srw5	active + .tj1, .tw2	j.sr1, j.srw1 5, sr, srj6, sry6	sr, srw5
prospective	sr, srtj7	—	srtj4, srt4
Used in Old Egyptian; archaic by Middle Egyptian. Used mostly since Middle Egyptian. Archaic or greatly restricted in usage by Middle Egyptian. The perfect has mostly taken over the functions of the perfective, and the subjunctive and periphrastic prospective have mostly replaced the prospective. Declines using third-person suffix pronouns instead of adjectival endings: masculine .f/.fj, feminine .s/.sj, dual .sn/.snj, plural .sn. Only in the masculine singular. Only in the masculine. Only in the feminine.

Noun

 m

1. official, magistrate

Inflection

Declension of sr (masculine)

singular	sr
dual	srwj
plural	srw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sr  

sr	sr

Presumably based on the descendants, Allen reads this word with an unwritten j as srj.

Descendants

• Demotic: srj

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 180.
• Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 168

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French

Noun

s^r (plural s^rs)

1. Abbreviation of sieur.

See also

• d^e
• d^lle