series
See also: séries, seríes, sériés, and sèries
English
Etymology
Attested from the 1610s;[1] borrowed from Latin seriēs, from serere (“to join together, bind”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together, to line up”). Related to desert, insert, sermon, and sorcerer.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɪə.ɹiːz/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈsɪɹiz/, /ˈsiɹiz/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /ˈsɪəɹɪ.ɪz/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: (US) -ɪɹiz
- Homophones: Siri's, Siris, Ceres
Noun
series (plural series or (obsolete) serieses)
- A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.
- Synonyms: chain, line, sequence, stream, succession; see also Thesaurus:sequence
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess:
- When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. […]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.
- 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:
- Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.
- A series of seemingly inconsequential events led cumulatively to the fall of the company.
- (broadcasting) A television or radio program which consists of several episodes that are broadcast in regular intervals
- Synonyms: show, program
- “Friends” was one of the most successful television series in recent years.
- (Discuss(+) this sense) (mathematics) The sequence of partial sums of a given sequence ai.
- The harmonic series has been much studied.
- (cricket, baseball) A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than the opposition.
- The Blue Jays are playing the Yankees in a four-game series.
- (zoology) An unranked taxon.
- (botany) A subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.
- (commerce) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.
- (phonology) A set of consonants that share a particular phonetic or phonological feature.
Usage notes
- (mathematics): Beginning students often confuse series with sequence.
Synonyms
- serie (obsolete)
Derived terms
- in series
- pre-series, preseries
- (electrical) series-wound
- (media, television) TV series
mathematics
- arithmetic series
- Balmer series
- basic hypergeometric series
- Brackett series
- confluent hypergeometric series
- formal power series
- geometric series
- Humphreys series
- hypergeometric series
- Lyman series
- Paschen series
- Pfund series
- power series
Related terms
- serial
- seriate
- seriatim
- seriation
Descendants
- → Japanese: シリーズ (shirīzu)
- → Korean: 시리즈 (sirijeu)
Translations
a number of things that follow on one after the other
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television or radio program
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in analysis: sum of the terms of a sequence
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References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “series”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading
- series in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- series in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- series at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- reises, ressie, seiser
Asturian
Noun
series
- plural of serie
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /səˈɾi.əs/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /seˈɾi.es/
Verb
series
- second-person singular conditional form of ser
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
series
- Plural form of serie
Interlingua
Noun
series
- plural of serie
Latin
Etymology
From serō (“to bind”) + -iēs.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈse.ri.eːs/, [ˈs̠ɛrieːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈse.ri.es/, [ˈsɛːries]
Noun
seriēs f (genitive seriēī); fifth declension
- a row
- a succession
- a series
- a chain
Declension
Fifth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | seriēs | seriēs |
Genitive | seriēī | seriērum |
Dative | seriēī | seriēbus |
Accusative | seriem | seriēs |
Ablative | seriē | seriēbus |
Vocative | seriēs | seriēs |
Descendants
- → Albanian: sërë
- Asturian: serie
- Catalan: sèrie
- → English: series
- → Japanese: シリーズ
- → Esperanto: serio
- French: série
- → Dutch: serie
- → Polish: seria
- → Romanian: serie
- → Turkish: seri
- → German: Serie
- → Ukrainian: се́рія (sérija)
- → Interlingua: serie
- Italian: serie
- Portuguese: série
- → Russian: се́рия (sérija)
- → Kazakh: серия (seriä)
- Sicilian: sèria
- Spanish: serie
- → Swedish: serie
References
- “series”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “series”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- series 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)
- series in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Portuguese
Verb
series
- second-person singular present subjunctive of seriar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈseɾjes/ [ˈse.ɾjes]
- Rhymes: -eɾjes
- Syllabification: se‧ries
Etymology 1
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
series f pl
- plural of serie
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
series
- second-person singular present subjunctive of seriar
Swedish
Noun
series
- indefinite genitive singular of serie.