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Latin
Etymology
Substantive neuter noun from sēricus. Compare with sērica.
Noun
sēricum n (genitive sēricī); second declension
- Chinese goods, but especially silk
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- “sericum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sericum 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)
- sericum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “sericum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “sericum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin