Serapis
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See also: Sérapis
English
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Serāpis, from Ancient Greek Σάρᾱπις (Sárāpis), from Egyptian wsjr-ḥp, from wsjr (“Osiris”) + ḥp (“Apis”).
Proper noun
Serapis
- A Graeco-Egyptian god devised during the 3rd century BC as a means to unify the Greeks and Egyptians in the realm of Ptolemy I.
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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σάρᾱπις (Sárāpis) (later Σέρᾱπις (Sérāpis)), from Egyptian wsjr-ḥp.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /seˈraː.pis/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /seˈra.pis/,
Proper noun
Serāpis m sg (genitive Serāpidis or Serāpis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun (imparisyllabic non-i-stem or i-stem; two different stems), singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Serāpis |
| genitive | Serāpidis Serāpis |
| dative | Serāpidī Serāpī |
| accusative | Serāpidem Serāpem |
| ablative | Serāpide Serāpe |
| vocative | Serāpis |
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See also
Serapis on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia la
References
- “Serapis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Serapis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Serapis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.