Ancient Greek

Noun

Σήρ • ‎(Sḗr) m ‎(genitive Σηρός); third declension

1. (in the plural) the Seres (the people from whom silk was obtained [i.e., the Chinese])
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 11.11.1
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 15.1.34
   • 100 CE – 300 CE, Dionysius Periegetes, Periegesis 752
   • Ctes., Fr. 86
   1. (in the singular, rare) a Chinese
2. a silkworm
   • 110 CE – 180 CE, Pausianas Periegeta, Description of Greece 6.26.6

Declension

Derived terms

• Σηρῐκός ‎(Sērikós)
• σηρῐκός ‎(sērikós)

Descendants

• Latin: Sēres

References

• Σήρ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press