serein
English
editNoun
editserein (uncountable)
- Alternative form of serene (“light rainfall from a cloudless sky after sunset”)
- 2000, Raphael Confiant, Mamzelle Dragonfly:
- "She must have caught a chill from the serein, that's all!"
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editEtymology 1
editInherited from Old French serein, probably from seri (“calm, mild”), serrit (with a change of suffix influenced by Latin serēnus), from a verb deriving from Latin serēscere (“grow dry”), itself from or related to serēnus (“cloudless”), by extension "calm, peaceful".
Adjective
editserein (feminine sereine, masculine plural sereins, feminine plural sereines)
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editEtymology 2
editEither from Latin serenum (“good weather”), or from Old French serein (“evening”), from Latin serum.
Noun
editserein m (plural sereins)
Further reading
edit- “serein”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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editEtymology 1
editFrom seri (“calm, mild”), serrit (with a change of suffix influenced by Latin serēnus), from a verb deriving from Latin serescō, serēscere (“grow dry”), itself from or related to serēnus (“cloudless”), by extension "calm, peaceful".
Adjective
editserein m (oblique and nominative feminine singular sereine)
Descendants
edit- French: serein
Etymology 2
editFrom a derivative of Latin serum.
Noun
editserein oblique singular, m (oblique plural sereinz, nominative singular sereinz, nominative plural serein)
Descendants
edit- French: serein
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