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Etymology
Borrowed from English serious and Dutch serieus, from Medieval Latin sēriōsus, an extension of Latin sērius (“grave, earnest, serious”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“heavy”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Standard, English-influenced) /sə.ˈri.ʊs/, (Dutch-influenced) /sɛ.ˈri.ʊs/
- Rhymes: -ʊs, -s
- Hyphenation: sê‧ri‧us
Adjective
sêrius
- serious
Derived terms
Further reading
Latin
Etymology
Somewhat disputed. There are two main competing hypotheses:
- Usually held to derive via Proto-Italic *swerjos from Proto-Indo-European *swer-yo-s, from the root *swer- (“heavy”). Cognate with Old English swǣr (“heavy, grave, grievous”), German schwer (“hard, difficult, heavy”), Lithuanian sverti (“to weigh, balance”), svarùs (“heavy”). More at sweer.
- According to De Vaan, rather from Proto-Italic *sērjos, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-ro-s + *-yo-, from an uncertain root *seh₁- (“to go slowly?”) (cf. sēgnis (“slow, tardy, sluggish, lazy”)). In this case, equivalent to sērus (“slow, tardy”) + -ius, with semantic shift "slow" > "tiring" > "heavy" > "grave, serious".
Pronunciation
Adjective
sērius (feminine sēria, neuter sērium); first/second-declension adjective
- grave, earnest, serious
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Adverb
sērius
- comparative degree of sērō
References
- “serius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “serius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- serius 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)
- serius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- two days late: biduo serius
- (ambiguous) to say in earnest..: serio dicere (Plaut. Bacch. 1. 1. 42)
- “serious”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sērius”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 556-7