serein
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French serein. Doublet of serene.
NounEdit
serein (uncountable)
- Light rainfall from a cloudless sky after sunset.
- 2000, Raphael Confiant, Mamzelle Dragonfly:
- "She must have caught a chill from the serein, that's all!"
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FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old French serein, probably from seri (“calm, mild”), serrit (with a change of suffix influenced by Latin serēnus), from a verb deriving from Latin serescō, serēscere (“grow dry”), itself from or related to serēnus (“cloudless”), by extension "calm, peaceful".
AdjectiveEdit
serein (feminine singular sereine, masculine plural sereins, feminine plural sereines)
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Etymology 2Edit
Either from Latin serenum (“good weather”), or from Old French serein (“evening”), from Latin serum.
NounEdit
serein m (plural sereins)
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Further readingEdit
- “serein” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From seri (“calm, mild”), serrit (with a change of suffix influenced by Latin serēnus), from a verb deriving from Latin serescō, serēscere (“grow dry”), itself from or related to serēnus (“cloudless”), by extension "calm, peaceful".
AdjectiveEdit
serein m (oblique and nominative feminine singular sereine)
DescendantsEdit
- French: serein
Etymology 2Edit
From a derivative of Latin serum.
NounEdit
serein m (oblique plural sereinz, nominative singular sereinz, nominative plural serein)
DescendantsEdit
- French: serein