Seres

See also: seres and sereš

English

Proper noun

Seres

  1. A surname.

Icelandic

Proper noun

Seres f

  1. Ceres (dwarf planet)

See also
Solar System in Icelandic · Sólkerfið (layout · text)
Star Sólin
Planets and
most likely
dwarf planets		 Merkúr Venus Jörðin Mars Seres Júpíter Satúrnus Úranus Neptúnus Plútó
Notable
moons		 — Tunglið Fóbos
Deimos		 — Íó
Evrópa
Ganýmedes
Kallistó		 Mímas
Enkeladus
Teþis
Díóne
Rea
Títan
Japetus
Míranda
Aríel
Úmbríel
Títanía
Óberon		 Tríton [Term?]
[Term?]
[Term?]
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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Σῆρες (Sêres, “the Chinese; China, the land of the Chinese”), plural of Σήρ (Sḗr), possibly from Old Chinese 絲 (*[s]ə, “silk”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Sērēs m pl (genitive Sērum); third declension (singular Sēr)

  1. (usually in the plural) The northern Chinese people reached via the overland Silk Road to Chang'an (Xi'an), unknown at the time to be related to the Sinae reached via the maritime Silk Road to Panyu (Guangzhou).

Declension

Third-declension noun, plural only.

Case Plural
Nominative Sērēs
Genitive Sērum
Dative Sēribus
Accusative Sērēs
Ablative Sēribus
Vocative Sērēs

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Portuguese: Seres
  • Spanish: Seres

See also

References
  • “Seres”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Seres in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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