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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *sēros, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“long, lasting”). Cognate with Old Irish sír, Welsh hwyr. See also sērius.[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
sērus (feminine sēra, neuter sērum, comparative sērior, superlative sērissimus, adverb sērō); first/second-declension adjective
- late, too late
- Synonym: tardus
- slow, tardy
- Synonyms: lentus, tardus, languidus
- Antonyms: rapidus, vēlōx, levis, celer, properus, promptus, facilis
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “serus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “serus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- serus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sērus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 558
Latvian
Noun
serus m
- accusative plural of sers