serra

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See also: Serra, serrá, and serrà

English

Etymology

From Latin serra.

Noun

serra (plural serrae)

  1. A saw, or saw-like part.

Anagrams

Asturian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin serra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsera/,
  • Rhymes: -era
  • Hyphenation: se‧rra

Noun

serra f (plural serres)

  1. saw (tool)

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan serra, from Latin serra.

Noun

serra f (plural serres)

  1. saw (tool)
  2. sierra, mountain range
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

serra

  1. inflection of serrar (to saw):
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

serra

  1. inflection of serrar (to squeeze; to clench):
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

Corsican

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin serra (saw), from Proto-Italic *serzā, from Proto-Indo-European *sers- (to cut off). Cognates include Portuguese serra and Spanish sierra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛrːa/
  • Hyphenation: ser‧ra

Noun

serra f (plural serre)

  1. (geography) sierra, mountain range

References

French

Pronunciation

Verb

serra

  1. third-person singular past historic of serrer

Anagrams

Galician

Serra do Xurés or do Gerês, in between Galicia and Portugal
Serra da Lastra
Serra do Courel

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛra/
  • Rhymes: -ɛra
  • Hyphenation: se‧rra

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese serra, from Latin serra. Cognate with Portuguese serra and Spanish sierra.

Noun

serra f (plural serras)

  1. saw
  2. (geography) sierra, mountain range
    Synonym: cordal
  3. (geography) highland
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin sera.

Noun

serra f (plural serras)

  1. bolt; bar for fastening doors
    Synonyms: ferrollo, tranca

References

Italian

Etymology 1

From serrare.

Pronunciation

Noun

serra f (plural serre)

  1. greenhouse, glasshouse
Descendants
  • Turkish: sera

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

serra

  1. inflection of serrare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • serra in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
  • serra in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
  • serra in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • serra in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese serra.

Noun

serra

  1. wahoo, Acanthocybium solandri

References

  • Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN

Latin

trēs serrae (three saws)

Etymology

According to De Vaan, from Proto-Italic *serzā, from Proto-Indo-European *sers-eh₂, from *sers- (to cut off), from which he also notes Schrijver's derivation of sarrio from a zero-grade of such a root.[1]

Compare, however, Proto-Celtic *serrā (sickle, scythe; billhook), with a different etymology.

Pronunciation

Noun

serra f (genitive serrae); first declension

  1. a saw (tool)
  2. a kind of sawfish
  3. (military) a serrated battle order

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative serra serrae
Genitive serrae serrārum
Dative serrae serrīs
Accusative serram serrās
Ablative serrā serrīs
Vocative serra serrae

Descendants

References

  • serra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • serra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • serra 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)
  • serra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • serra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • serra”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “serra”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 558

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian serra.

Pronunciation

Noun

serra f

  1. red-breasted merganser (Mergus serrator)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese serra, from Latin serra.

Noun

serra f (plural serras)

  1. saw (tool)
  2. chain (of mountains)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

serra

  1. inflection of serrar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin serra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛʐ.ʐa/
  • Hyphenation: sèr‧ra

Noun

serra f (plural serri)

  1. saw
  2. chain (of mountains)

Derived terms