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See also: Sérapis

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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

  1. 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

Proper noun

Serāpis m sg (genitive Serāpidis or Serāpis); third declension

  1. (Egyptian mythology) Serapis, an Egyptian god.

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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Descendants

  • English: Serapis, m
  • French: Sérapis, m

See also

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.
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