sera
English
Noun
sera
- plural of serum (alternative form of serums).
Anagrams
- AREs, ARSE, Ares, EARs, ERAs, Ersa, Sear, ares, arse, ears, eras, rase, reas, sare, sear
Bikol Central
Alternative forms
- sara
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish cerrar.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: se‧ra
- IPA(key): /seˈɾa/
Verb
será
- to lock, to latch
- Synonym: barat
- to close, to shut
- Synonym: pinto
Derived terms
- magsera
- mansera
- maserahan
- serahan
- serahon
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈsɛra]
- Rhymes: -ɛra
- Hyphenation: se‧ra
Verb
sera
- masculine singular present transgressive of srát
Related terms
- serouc
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
sera
- Plural form of serum
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sə.ʁa/, /sʁa/
Audio (file)
Verb
sera
- third-person singular future indicative of être
Anagrams
- ares, Arès
- rase, rasé
Italian
Etymology
From Late Latin sēra, from ellipsis of Latin sēra diēs, from sērus (“late”).
Compare Venetian séra, Friulian sere, Sicilian sira, Romanian seară, Romansch saira and French soir m.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈse.ra/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -era
- Hyphenation: sé‧ra
Noun
sera f (plural sere)
- evening
Related terms
- buonasera / buona sera / bonasera
- iersera
- serale
- serata
- stasera
See also
- (times of day) parte del giorno; aurora, alba, mattino/mattina, mezzogiorno, pomeriggio, tramonto, crepuscolo, sera, notte, mezzanotte (Category: it:Time) [edit]
Anagrams
- Ares, arse, rase, resa
Latin
Etymology 1
From serō (“to bind”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈse.ra/, [ˈs̠ɛrä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈse.ra/, [ˈsɛːrä]
Noun
sera f (genitive serae); first declension
- a bar or bolt for fastening doors
- 16 BCE, Ovid, Amores 3.14:
- quis furor est, quae nocte latent, in luce fateri,
et quae clam facias facta referre palam?
ignoto meretrix corpus iunctura Quiriti
opposita populum summovet ante sera;
tu tua prostitues famae peccata sinistrae
commissi perages indiciumque tui?- Translation by Christopher Marlowe
- What madnesse ist to tell night prankes by day,
And hidden secrets openlie to bewray?
The strumpet with the stranger will not do,
Before the roome be deere, and doore put too.
Will you make shipwracke of your honest name,
And let the world be witnesse of the same?
- What madnesse ist to tell night prankes by day,
- Translation by Christopher Marlowe
- quis furor est, quae nocte latent, in luce fateri,
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | sera | serae |
Genitive | serae | serārum |
Dative | serae | serīs |
Accusative | seram | serās |
Ablative | serā | serīs |
Vocative | sera | serae |
Derived terms
- serō
Descendants
- Galician: serra
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈseː.ra/, [ˈs̠eːrä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈse.ra/, [ˈsɛːrä]
Adjective
sēra
- inflection of sērus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative neuter plural
Adjective
sērā
- ablative feminine singular of sērus
References
- “sera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sera 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)
- sera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “sera”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “sera”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “sera”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Latvian
Noun
sera m
- genitive singular form of sers
Lower Sorbian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *syrъ (“cheese”); cognate with Macedonian сереј (serej, “colostrum, beestings”), Macedonian серај (seraj, “colostrum, beestings”), Polish siara (“colostrum”), Upper Sorbian syra, Czech sýr, Russian сыр (syr), Old Church Slavonic сꙑръ (syrŭ).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛra/
Noun
sera f
- colostrum, beestings
Declension
Singular | Dual | Plural | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | sera | serje | sery |
Genitive | sery | serowu | serow |
Dative | serje | seroma | seram |
Accusative | seru | serje | sery |
Instrumental | seru | seroma | serami |
Locative | serje | seroma | serach |
Synonyms
- serawa
Further reading
- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “sera”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999), “sera”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
Northern Sotho
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *bìtáà (“war, army”), derived from Proto-Bantu *bʊ̀táà (“bow”).
Noun
sera
- enemy
Old Norse
Verb
sera
- first-person singular past indicative/subjunctive active of sá
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛ.ra/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛra
- Syllabification: se‧ra
Noun
sera m inan
- genitive singular of ser
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) saira
- (Surmiran) seira
Etymology
From Late Latin sēra, from ellipsis of Latin sēra dies, from sērus (“late”).
Noun
sera f (plural seras)
- (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) evening
Sardinian
Alternative forms
- sero
Etymology
From Late Latin sēra, from ellipsis of Latin sēra diēs, from 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): /ˈsera/
Noun
sera f (plural seras)
- evening
Sotho
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *bìtáà (“war, army”), derived from Proto-Bantu *bʊ̀táà (“bow”).
Noun
sera class 7/8 (plural dira)
- enemy
Swahili
Pronunciation
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun
sera (ma class, plural masera)
- policy (plan or course of action)
Tswana
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *bìtáà (“war, army”), derived from Proto-Bantu *bʊ̀táà (“bow”).
Noun
sera class 7 (plural dira)
- enemy
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed either from French serre or Italian serra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈse.ɾa/
- Hyphenation: se‧ra
- Rhymes: -a
Noun
sera (definite accusative serayı, plural seralar)
- greenhouse
Declension
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Nominative | sera | seralar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dative | seraya | seralara | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | serada | seralarda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- seracı
- sera etkisi
Venetian
Alternative forms
- siera, çera, zhera
Etymology
Compare Italian serra
Noun
sera f (plural sere)
- greenhouse