Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.roː/

Verb

serō ‎(present infinitive serere, perfect active sēvī, supine satum); third conjugation

1. I sow, plant.
2. (of persons) I beget, bring forth, produce.
3. (figuratively) I found, establish; scatter, spread, disseminate; propagate; excite; cause, produce.

Inflection

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Proto-Italic *serō, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- ‎(“to bind, put together”). (compare Ancient Greek εἴρω ‎(eírō), Sanskrit सरत् ‎(sarat), Old Lithuanian sėris ‎(“filament”)), Old English serc ‎(“shirt, coat of mail”). More at sark.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.roː/

Verb

serō ‎(present infinitive serere, perfect active seruī, supine sertum); third conjugation

1. I join or bind together; plait, interweave, interlace, entwine.
2. (figuratively) I join, interweave, connect; combine, compose, contrive.

Inflection

Derived terms

Etymology 3

From sera ‎(“bar for fastening doors”), itself from serō ‎(“to bind”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.roː/

Verb

serō ‎(present infinitive serāre, perfect active serāvī, supine serātum); first conjugation

1. I fasten (with a bolt), bar, bolt.

Inflection

Derived terms

• obserō
• reserō

Descendants

Etymology 4

From sērus ‎(“late”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈseː.roː/

Adjective

sērō

1. dative masculine singular of sērus
2. dative neuter singular of sērus
3. ablative masculine singular of sērus
4. ablative neuter singular of sērus

Adverb

sērō ‎(comparable sērius, superlative sērissimē)

1. At a late hour, late, tardily.
2. Too late.

Derived terms

• sērōtinus

Related terms

• sēritās
• sērus

Etymology 5

Inflected form of serum ‎(“whey; serum”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.roː/

Noun

serō

1. dative singular of serum
2. ablative singular of serum

References

• sero in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sero in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• SERO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “sero”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to sow: serere; semen spargere
    
  • to plant trees: arbores serere (De Sen. 7. 24)
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill

Mapudungun

Numeral

sero ‎(using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. (cardinal) zero

Novial

Numeral

sero

1. (cardinal) zero

Old Saxon

Adverb

sero ‎(comparative mēr, superlative mēst)

1. much

Welsh

Numeral

sero

1. zero

Noun

sero m (plural seroau)

1. zero

Synonyms

• dim

Mutation