serenar

From Latin serēnāre.

• Hyphenation: se‧re‧nar

serenar (first-person singular present sereno, first-person singular preterite serenei, past participle serenado)

1. to soothe

Inherited from Latin serēnāre.

• IPA^(key): /seɾeˈnaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: se‧re‧nar

serenar (first-person singular present sereno, first-person singular preterite serené, past participle serenado)

1. to soothe
2. (reflexive, of the weather) to clear up
3. (uncommon) to put (something) out in the cool, humid nighttime air
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 308:

     La sandía «serenada», es decir, expuesta abierta al sereno durante toda la noche, es remedio seguro para la ictericia.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “serenar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10