sero

Asturian

Adverb

sero

1. late

   Synonym: tarde

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin serum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ero
• Hyphenation: se‧ro

Noun

sero (accusative singular seron, plural seroj, accusative plural serojn)

1. serum

Indonesian

Etymology

Back-formation from pesero (“shareholder”) as per- +‎ sero, from earlier persero, from Portuguese parceiro (“business partner”), from Old Galician-Portuguese parceiro, from Late Latin partiārius, from Latin partiō, from pars.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: sé‧ro

Noun

sero (plural sero-sero, first-person possessive seroku, second-person possessive seromu, third-person possessive seronya)

1. (finance, trading) stock, the capital raised by a company through the issue of shares.

   Synonyms: andil, saham

Derived terms

Further reading

• “sero” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Noun

sero (plural seros)

1. whey
2. serum

Adverb

sero (comparative plus sero, superlative le plus sero)

1. late

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *sizō, from Proto-Indo-European *sish₁éti, the reduplicated present of *seh₁- (“to sow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.roː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ro/,

Verb

serō (present infinitive serere, perfect active sēvī, supine satum); third conjugation

1. to sow, plant

   Synonyms: īnserō, disserō, obserō

   • c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 1.30:

     "Serit arborēs, quae alterī saeclō prōsint", ut ait <Statius> in Synephebis,

     "He plants the trees, so that they may serve another generation", as Caecilius Statius says in his Synephebi,

2. (of persons) to beget, bring forth, produce
3. (figuratively) to found, establish; scatter, spread, disseminate; propagate; excite; cause, produce

Conjugation

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Proto-Italic *serō, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together, to line up”); compare Ancient Greek εἴρω (eírō), Sanskrit सरत् (sarat), Old Lithuanian Lithuanian sėris (“filament”), Old English serc (“shirt, coat of mail”). More at sark.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.roː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ro/,

Verb

serō (present infinitive serere, perfect active seruī, supine sertum); third conjugation

1. (perh. only as past pple.) to link together, entwine, interlace
2. (transferred sense) to join in a series, string together
3. (certāmina, proelia etc.) to join a battle, engage in conflict

   Synonyms: repugnō, pugnō, contendō, dēcernō, concurrō, certō, bellō, dīmicō, cōnflīgō, committō, dēcertō

4. (sermōnēs, colloquia etc.) to engage in conversation, parley
   • 1633, Johannes de Laet, Novus orbis seu descriptionis Indiæ occidentalis, Libri XVIII, page 642:

     […] perſuadent enim ſe crebro cum dæmone ſermones ſerere, quem Wattipam nominant, & res geſtas in longinquis regionibus ab ipſo edoceri, nec non futuras præmoneri: agnoſcunt autem hunc ſpiritum malum eſſe; neque injuria, nam haud raro miſerum in modum ab ipſo flagellantur.

     For they persuade themselves that they often hold conversations with a demon whom they call Wattipa, and that they are informed by him of things done in distant regions, and indeed foreshown things to be: but they acknowledge that this spirit is evil; and not without reason, for not infrequently they are scourged by him in a miserable manner.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Etymology 3

From sera (“bar for fastening doors”), itself from serō (“to bind”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.roː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ro/,

Verb

serō (present infinitive serāre, perfect active serāvī, supine serātum); first conjugation

1. (Late Latin) to fasten (with a bolt), bar, bolt

Conjugation

Derived terms

• obserō
• reserō

Descendants

Etymology 4

From sērus (“late”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈseː.roː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ro/,

Adjective

sērō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of sērus

Adverb

sērō (comparative sērius, superlative sērissimē)

1. At a late hour, late, tardily
2. Too late

Derived terms

• sērōtinus

Related terms

• sēritās
• sērus

Etymology 5

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.roː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ro/,

Noun

serō

1. dative/ablative singular of serum (“whey; serum”)

References

• “serō²” on page 1,923 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
• “sero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sero 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)
• sero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to sow: serere; semen spargere
    
  • to plant trees: arbores serere (De Sen. 7. 24)
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Lindu

Noun

sero

1. shovel

Mapudungun

Numeral

sero (Raguileo spelling)

1. zero

Old Saxon

Adverb

sero (comparative mēr, superlative mēst)

1. much

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish cero and Portuguese zero and Kabuverdianu zéru.

Numeral

sero

1. zero (0)

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• sera

Etymology

From Latin sērō adverb form of sērus (“late”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-ro-. Compare Italian sera, French soir, Venetian séra, Friulian sere, Sicilian sira, Romanian seară, Romansch saira.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsero/

Noun

sero f (plural seros)

1. evening

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseɾo/,
• Hyphenation: se‧ro

• Audio

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Numeral

sero (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜇᜓ)

1. zero

   Synonyms: wala, (neologism) awan, (neologism) kopong, (colloquial) itlog, (slang) bokya

Derived terms

See also

Noun

sero (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜇᜓ)

1. nothing; naught

Further reading

• “sero”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛrɔ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈzeːrɔ/, /ˈzɛrɔ/

Numeral

sero

1. (cardinal number) zero

Noun

sero m (plural seroau, not mutable)

1. zero

   Synonym: dim

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “sero”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies