sero

sero

1. late

   Synonym: tarde

From Latin serum.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsero]
• Rhymes: -ero
• Hyphenation: se‧ro

sero (accusative singular seron, plural seroj, accusative plural serojn)

1. serum

Back-formation from pesero (“shareholder”) as per- +‎ sero, from earlier persero, from Portuguese parceiro (“business partner”), from Old Galician-Portuguese parceiro, from Late Latin partiārius, from Latin partiō, from pars.

• IPA^(key): [ˈse.ro]
• Hyphenation: sé‧ro

sero (plural sero-sero, first-person possessive seroku, second-person possessive seromu, third-person possessive seronya)

1. (finance, trading) stock, the capital raised by a company through the issue of shares.

   Synonyms: andil, saham

• “sero” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

sero (plural seros)

1. whey
2. serum

sero (comparative plus sero, superlative le plus sero)

1. late

From Proto-Italic *sizō, from Proto-Indo-European *sish₁éti, the reduplicated present of *seh₁- (“to sow”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.roː/, [ˈs̠ɛroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ro/, [ˈsɛːro]

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

1. to sow, plant

   Synonyms: īnserō, disserō, obserō

   • c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 1.30:

     "Serit arborēs, quae alterī saeclō prōsint", ut ait <Statius> in Synephebis, […]

     "He plants the trees, so that they may serve another generation", as Caecilius Statius says in his Synephebi, […]

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

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.roː/, [ˈs̠ɛroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ro/, [ˈsɛːro]

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

1. (perh. only as past pple.) to link together, entwine, interlace
2. (transferred sense) to join in a series, string together
3. (certāmina, proelia etc.) to join a battle, engage in conflict

   Synonyms: repugnō, pugnō, contendō, dēcernō, concurrō, certō, bellō, dīmicō, cōnflīgō, committō, dēcertō

4. (sermōnēs, colloquia etc.) to engage in conversation, parley
   • 1633, Johannes de Laet, Novus orbis seu descriptionis Indiæ occidentalis, Libri XVIII, page 642:

     […] perſuadent enim ſe crebro cum dæmone ſermones ſerere, quem Wattipam nominant, & res geſtas in longinquis regionibus ab ipſo edoceri, nec non futuras præmoneri: agnoſcunt autem hunc ſpiritum malum eſſe; neque injuria, nam haud raro miſerum in modum ab ipſo flagellantur.

     For they persuade themselves that they often hold conversations with a demon whom they call Wattipa, and that they are informed by him of things done in distant regions, and indeed foreshown things to be: but they acknowledge that this spirit is evil; and not without reason, for not infrequently they are scourged by him in a miserable manner.

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.roː/, [ˈs̠ɛroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ro/, [ˈsɛːro]

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

1. (Late Latin) to fasten (with a bolt), bar, bolt

• obserō
• reserō

From sērus (“late”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈseː.roː/, [ˈs̠eːroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ro/, [ˈsɛːro]

sērō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of sērus

sērō (comparative sērius, superlative sērissimē)

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

• sērōtinus

• sēritās
• sērus

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.roː/, [ˈs̠ɛroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ro/, [ˈsɛːro]

serō

1. dative/ablative singular of serum (“whey; serum”)

• “serō²” on page 1,923 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• sero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (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, →ISBN

sero

1. shovel

sero (Raguileo spelling)

1. zero

sero (comparative mēr, superlative mēst)

1. much

From Spanish cero and Portuguese zero and Kabuverdianu zéru.

sero

1. zero (0)

• sera

From Latin sērō adverb form of sērus (“late”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-ro-. Compare Italian sera, French soir, Venetian séra, Friulian sere, Sicilian sira, Romanian seară, Romansch saira.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsero/

sero f (plural seros)

1. evening

Borrowed from Spanish cero.

• IPA^(key): /ˈseɾo/, [ˈsɛ.ɾo]
• Hyphenation: se‧ro

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sero (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜇᜓ)

1. zero

   Synonyms: wala, (neologism) awan, (neologism) kopong, (colloquial) itlog, (slang) bokya

sero (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜇᜓ)

1. nothing; naught

• “sero”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛrɔ/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈzeːrɔ/, /ˈzɛrɔ/

sero

1. (cardinal number) zero

sero m (plural seroau, not mutable)

1. zero

   Synonym: dim

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “sero”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies