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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Related to σήρ (sḗr, “silkworm”) but otherwise uncertain. Possibly ultimately from Old Chinese 絲 (*sə, “silk”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛ̌ːr/ → /sir/ → /sir/
Noun
Σήρ • (Sḗr) m (genitive Σηρός); third declension
- (historical, rare in the singular) Serican, one of the Seres, the people from whom silk was obtained, the North Chinese as known to the ancient Greeks and Romans.
Declension
Coordinate terms
- Σῖναι (Sînai) (southern Chinese as known to the ancient Greeks and Romans)
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “Σήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Monchi-Zadeh, Daoud (1975) “Iranische Miszellen”, in Monumentum H. S. Nyberg (Acta Iranica; 5), Leiden: E.J. Brill, →ISBN, pages 69–72