serein

See also: Serein

English

Noun

serein (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of serene (“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!"

Anagrams

• Eisner, Riesen, irenes, seiner, serine, sirene

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sə.ʁɛ̃/

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• Homophones: sereins, serin, serins

Etymology 1

Inherited 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 serēscere (“grow dry”), itself from or related to serēnus (“cloudless”), by extension "calm, peaceful".

Adjective

serein (feminine sereine, masculine plural sereins, feminine plural sereines)

1. (of sky) unclouded, clear
2. (figuratively) serene, calm, tranquil

Derived terms

• rasséréner
• sereinement

Related terms

• sérénade
• sérénité

Etymology 2

Either from Latin serenum (“good weather”), or from Old French serein (“evening”), from Latin serum.

Noun

serein m (plural sereins)

1. (literary or regional) serein

Further reading

• “serein”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• insère, inséré, reines, renies, résine, résiné, seiner, sirène

Old French

Alternative forms

• serain

Etymology 1

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".

Adjective

serein m (oblique and nominative feminine singular sereine)

1. serene, calm, tranquil

Descendants

• French: serein

Etymology 2

From a derivative of Latin serum.

Noun

serein oblique singular, m (oblique plural sereinz, nominative singular sereinz, nominative plural serein)

1. evening

Descendants

• French: serein