serica
See also: Serica and sérica
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛ.ri.ka/
- Rhymes: -ɛrika
- Hyphenation: sè‧ri‧ca
Adjective
serica
- feminine singular of serico
Anagrams
- Cerasi, Scirea, arcesi, ascrei, cerasi, escirà, recisa, riesca, riseca, sciare, scierà
Latin
Etymology
Substantive neuter noun from sēricus. Confer with sēricum.
Noun
sērica n pl (genitive sēricōrum); second declension
- silk garments, silks
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.
| Case | Plural |
|---|---|
| Nominative | sērica |
| Genitive | sēricōrum |
| Dative | sēricīs |
| Accusative | sērica |
| Ablative | sēricīs |
| Vocative | sērica |
Derived terms
- sēricārius
- sēricātus
- sēriceus
- subsēricus
Descendants
- Albanian: sarkë
- Aromanian: saricã
- English: serge
- French: serge, sarge
- Catalan: sarja
- Portuguese: sarja
- Galician: xerga
- Irish: saraiste
- Italian: sargia
- Norman: sarge
- Old Occitan: sarga
- Portuguese: xerga, enxerga
- Romanian: sarică
- Spanish: jerga, sarga
Noun
sērica
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of sēricum
References
- “serica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- serica 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)
- serica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “serica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “serica”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly