sericus
Latin
Etymology
From Sēres (“northern Chinese people”) + -icus, or directly from Ancient Greek σηρικός (sērikós, “seric, silken”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈseː.ri.kus/, [ˈs̠eːrɪkʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈse.ri.kus/, [ˈsɛːrikus]
Adjective
sēricus (feminine sērica, neuter sēricum); first/second-declension adjective
- Of or pertaining to the Seres or the Chinese.
- (by extension) Made of silk, silken.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | sēricus | sērica | sēricum | sēricī | sēricae | sērica | |
Genitive | sēricī | sēricae | sēricī | sēricōrum | sēricārum | sēricōrum | |
Dative | sēricō | sēricō | sēricīs | ||||
Accusative | sēricum | sēricam | sēricum | sēricōs | sēricās | sērica | |
Ablative | sēricō | sēricā | sēricō | sēricīs | |||
Vocative | sērice | sērica | sēricum | sēricī | sēricae | sērica |
Derived terms
- sērica
- sēricārius
- sēricoblatta
- sēricum
Related terms
- sēricāria
- sēricāriī
Descendants
- → English: seric
- → Old English: seolc, seoluc, seoloc, sioluc
- Middle English: selk, silk
- Scots: selk, silke, silk
- English: silk
- Middle English: selk, silk
- Italian: serico
- Old Portuguese: sirgo
- Galician: sirgo
- Portuguese: sirgo
- → Portuguese: sérico
- Spanish: sirgo
- → Spanish: sérico
References
- “sericus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sericus 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)