sericus

Latin

Etymology

From Sēres (“northern Chinese people”) +‎ -icus, or directly from Ancient Greek σηρικός (sērikós, “seric, silken”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈseː.ri.kus/, [ˈs̠eːrɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ri.kus/, [ˈsɛːrikus]

Adjective

sēricus (feminine sērica, neuter sēricum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Of or pertaining to the Seres or the Chinese.
2. (by extension) Made of silk, silken.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	sēricus	sērica	sēricum		sēricī	sēricae	sērica
Genitive	sēricī	sēricae	sēricī		sēricōrum	sēricārum	sēricōrum
Dative	sēricō		sēricō		sēricīs
Accusative	sēricum	sēricam	sēricum		sēricōs	sēricās	sērica
Ablative	sēricō	sēricā	sēricō		sēricīs
Vocative	sērice	sērica	sēricum		sēricī	sēricae	sērica

Derived terms

• sērica
• sēricārius
• sēricoblatta
• sēricum

Related terms

• sēricāria
• sēricāriī

Descendants

• → English: seric
• → Old English: seolc, seoluc, seoloc, sioluc
  • Middle English: selk, silk
    • Scots: selk, silke, silk
    • English: silk
• Italian: serico
• Old Galician-Portuguese: sirgo
  • Galician: sirgo
  • Portuguese: sirgo
• → Portuguese: sérico
• Spanish: sirgo
• → Spanish: sérico

References

• “sericus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sericus 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)