serena

See also: Serena, serená, and Serēna

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• arenes, ensear, ranees

Asturian

Alternative forms

• sirena

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seˈɾena/, [seˈɾe.na]

Noun

serena f (plural serenes)

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

Catalan

Adjective

serena

1. feminine singular of serè

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin serēnus.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

1. calm, serene

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Adjective

serena f sg

1. feminine singular of sereno

Etymology 2

Verb

serena

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

Anagrams

• arnese

Latin

Pronunciation

• 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]

Adjective

serēna

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

Adjective

serēnā

1. ablative feminine singular of serēnus

References

• 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

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Adjective

serena

1. feminine singular of sereno

Etymology 2

Verb

serena

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Noun

serena f (plural serenas)

1. female equivalent of sereno

Adjective

serena

1. feminine singular of sereno

Etymology 2

Verb

serena

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

Swedish

Adjective

serena

1. absolute singular definite and plural form of seren.