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Italian
Pronunciation
Adjective
serica
- feminine singular of serico
Anagrams
- Cerasi, Scirea, arcesi, ascrei, cerasi, escirà, recisa, riesca, riseca, sciare, scierà
Latin
Etymology
Substantive neuter noun from sēricus. Compare with sēricum.
Noun
sērica n pl (genitive sēricōrum); second declension
- silk garments, silks
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.
Derived terms
Descendants
Noun
sērica
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of sēricum
References
- “serica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- serica in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- serica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “serica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “serica”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly