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serus

serus

Latin

Adjective

sērus m ‎(feminine sēra, neuter sērum); first/second declension

late, too late
slow, tardy

Inflection

First/second declension.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular				Plural
nominative	sērus	sēra	sērum		sērī	sērae	sēra
genitive	sērī	sērae	sērī		sērōrum	sērārum	sērōrum
dative	sērō	sērae	sērō		sērīs
accusative	sērum	sēram	sērum		sērōs	sērās	sēra
ablative	sērō	sērā	sērō		sērīs
vocative	sēre	sēra	sērum		sērī	sērae	sēra

comparative: sērior, superlative: sērissimus

Synonyms

(late): tardus
(slow): lentus, tardus

Derived terms

sēritās
sērō
sērōtinus

Descendants

Aromanian: searã
Asturian: sero
Dalmatian: saira
French: soir
Friulian: sere
Italian: sera
Norman: sei
Occitan: ser, seir, soir

Portuguese: serão
Romanian: seară
Romansch: saira, sera, seira
Sardinian: sera, sero
Sicilian: sira
Spanish: sera
Venetian: séra
Slovak: serus

References

serus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
serus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “serus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill