serica

See also: Serica and sérica

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ri.ka/
• Rhymes: -ɛrika
• Hyphenation: sè‧ri‧ca

Adjective

serica

1. feminine singular of serico

Anagrams

• Cerasi, Scirea, arcesi, ascrei, cerasi, escirà, recisa, riesca, riseca, sciare, scierà

Latin

Etymology

Substantive neuter noun from sēricus. Compare with sēricum.

Noun

sērica n pl (genitive sēricōrum); second declension

1. silk garments, silks

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	sērica
Genitive	sēricōrum
Dative	sēricīs
Accusative	sērica
Ablative	sēricīs
Vocative	sērica

Derived terms

• sēricārius
• sēricātus
• sēriceus
• subsēricus

 

Descendants

• Albanian: sarkë
• Aromanian: saricã
• English: serge
• French: serge, sarge
  • Catalan: sarja
  • Portuguese: sarja
• Galician: xerga
• Irish: saraiste
• Italian: sargia
• Norman: sarge
• Old Occitan: sarga
• Portuguese: xerga, enxerga
• Romanian: sarică
• Spanish: jerga, sarga

Noun

sērica

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of sēricum

References

• “serica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• serica 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)
• serica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “serica”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “serica”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly