sero

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 peng- +‎ 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: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic 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]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ro/, [ˈsɛːro]

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

1. I 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) I beget, bring forth, produce.
3. (figuratively) I 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]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ro/, [ˈsɛːro]

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

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

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

4. (sermōnēs, colloquia etc.) I engage in conversation, parley.

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

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

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

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

• obserō
• reserō

From sērus (“late”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈseː.roː/, [ˈs̠eːroː]
• (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]
• (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.

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

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sero (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜇᜓ)

1. zero

   Synonyms: kopong, wala, awan

sero (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜇᜓ)

1. nothing; naught

• “sero”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 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