See also: Serena, serená, and Serēna

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Italian serena, feminine of sereno. Compare Spanish serena (dew).

NounEdit

serena (uncountable)

  1. 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.

AnagramsEdit

AsturianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Late Latin sirēna, from Latin Sīrēn, from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /seˈɾena/, [seˈɾe.na]

NounEdit

serena f (plural serenes)

  1. (Greek mythology) siren
  2. mermaid
  3. siren (alarm)

CatalanEdit

AdjectiveEdit

serena

  1. feminine singular of serè

EsperantoEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin serēnus.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [seˈrena]
  • Rhymes: -ena
  • Hyphenation: se‧re‧na

AdjectiveEdit

serena (accusative singular serenan, plural serenaj, accusative plural serenajn)

  1. calm, serene

ItalianEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /seˈre.na/
  • Rhymes: -ena
  • Syllabification: se‧ré‧na

Etymology 1Edit

AdjectiveEdit

serena f sg

  1. feminine singular of sereno

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

serena

  1. inflection of serenare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

AnagramsEdit

LatinEdit

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

serēna

  1. inflection of serēnus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

AdjectiveEdit

serēnā

  1. ablative feminine singular of serēnus

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

  1. feminine singular of sereno

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

serena

  1. inflection of serenar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

SpanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /seˈɾena/ [seˈɾe.na]
  • Rhymes: -ena
  • Syllabification: se‧re‧na

Etymology 1Edit

NounEdit

serena f (plural serenas)

  1. female equivalent of sereno

AdjectiveEdit

serena

  1. feminine singular of sereno

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

serena

  1. inflection of serenar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

SwedishEdit

AdjectiveEdit

serena

  1. absolute singular definite and plural form of seren.