serena
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Italian serena, feminine of sereno. Compare Spanish serena (“dew”).
NounEdit
serena (uncountable)
- Obsolete form of serene (“fine rain from a cloudless sky after sunset”, noun).
- 1594, Thomas Nashe, The terrors of the night, or, A discourse of apparitions:
- Fie, fie, was euer poore fellow so farre benighted in an old wiues tale of diuells and vrchins. Out vpon it, I am wearie of it, for it hath caused such a thicke fulsome Serena to descend on my braine, that now my penne makes blots as broad as a furd stomacher, and my muse inspyres me to put out my candle and goe to bed: […]
- 1589-1600, Robert Dudley, “A voyage of the honourable Gentleman M. Robert Duddeley, now knight, to the isle of Trinidad, and the coast of Paria”, in Richard Hakluyt, editor, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation:
- But not desirous to make any longer aboad in this place, by reason of the most infectious serenas or dewes that fall all along these coasts of Africa, […]
- 1723, William Darrell, The Gentleman Instructed, in the Conduct of a Virtuous and Happy Life (8th edition)[1], page 108:
- For indeed they had already by way of Precaution, armed themselves against the Serena with a Caudle.
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AsturianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Late Latin sirēna, from Latin Sīrēn, from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
serena f (plural serenes)
CatalanEdit
AdjectiveEdit
serena
EsperantoEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
serena (accusative singular serenan, plural serenaj, accusative plural serenajn)
ItalianEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
AdjectiveEdit
serena f sg
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
serena
- inflection of serenare:
AnagramsEdit
LatinEdit
PronunciationEdit
- serēna: (Classical) IPA(key): /seˈreː.na/, [s̠ɛˈreːnä]
- serēna: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /seˈre.na/, [seˈrɛːnä]
- serēnā: (Classical) IPA(key): /seˈreː.naː/, [s̠ɛˈreːnäː]
- serēnā: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /seˈre.na/, [seˈrɛːnä]
AdjectiveEdit
serēna
- inflection of serēnus:
AdjectiveEdit
serēnā
ReferencesEdit
- serena 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)
- “serena”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “serena”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
PortugueseEdit
Etymology 1Edit
AdjectiveEdit
serena
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
serena
- inflection of serenar:
SpanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
serena f (plural serenas)
- female equivalent of sereno
AdjectiveEdit
serena
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
serena
- inflection of serenar:
SwedishEdit
AdjectiveEdit
serena
- absolute singular definite and plural form of seren.