sera
English
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Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /seˈɾa/, [seˈɾa]
- Hyphenation: se‧ra
Verb
será (Basahan spelling ᜐᜒᜍ)
Derived terms
- magsera
- mansera
- maserahan
- serahan
- serahon
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈsɛra]
- Rhymes: -ɛra
- Hyphenation: se‧ra
Related terms
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sə.ʁa/, /sʁa/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -a
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
See also
- (times of day) parte del giorno; aurora, alba, mattino/mattina, mezzogiorno, pomeriggio, tramonto, crepuscolo, sera, notte, mezzanotte (Category: it:Time) [edit]
Latin
Etymology 1
From serō (“to bind”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈse.ra/, [ˈs̠ɛrä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈse.ra/, [ˈsɛːrä]
Noun
sera f (genitive serae); first declension
- a bar or bolt for fastening doors
- 16 BCE, Ovid, The Loves 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 |
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Nominative | sera | serae |
Genitive | serae | serārum |
Dative | serae | serīs |
Accusative | seram | serās |
Ablative | serā | serīs |
Vocative | sera | serae |
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈseː.ra/, [ˈs̠eːrä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈse.ra/, [ˈsɛːrä]
Adjective
sēra
- inflection of sērus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative neuter plural
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
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/
Declension
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”).
Old Norse
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɛ.ra/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛra
- Syllabification: se‧ra
Romansch
Sardinian
Alternative forms
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/
Sotho
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *bìtáà (“war, army”), derived from Proto-Bantu *bʊ̀táà (“bow”).
Swahili
Pronunciation
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Etymology 1
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Arabic [Term?].
Etymology 3
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Tswana
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *bìtáà (“war, army”), derived from Proto-Bantu *bʊ̀táà (“bow”).
Turkish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈse.ɾa/
- Rhymes: -a
- Hyphenation: se‧ra
Declension
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Definite accusative | serayı | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | sera | seralar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | serayı | seraları | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | seraya | seralara | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | serada | seralarda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | seradan | seralardan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | seranın | seraların | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- sera etkisi
- seracı
Venetian
Alternative forms
- siera, çera, zhera