different between sere vs seral

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s?(?)?/
• Homophone: seer

Etymology 1

From Middle English ser, sere, seare, seer, seere, seir, seyr (“dry, withered; emaciated, shrivelled; brittle; bare; dead, lifeless; barren, useless”), from Old English s?ar, s?ere (“dry, withered; barren; sere”), from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz (“dry, parched”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?sews-, *sh?ews- (“to be dry”). Cognate with Dutch zoor (“dry and coarse”), Greek ???? (a?os, “dry”), Lithuanian sausas (“dry”), Middle Low German sôr (Low German soor (“arid, dry”)), Old Church Slavonic su?? (su??, “dry”),. Doublet of sear and sare.

Adjective

sere (comparative serer, superlative serest)

1. (archaic or literary, poetic) Without moisture; dry.

   Synonyms: (Britain, archaic) sare, sear; see also Thesaurus:dry
2. (obsolete) Of fabrics: threadbare, worn out.

Derived terms

• wood-sere

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin serere, present active infinitive of ser? (“to entwine, interlace, link together; to join in a series, string together”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, tie together; to thread”).

Noun

sere (plural seres)

1. (ecology) A natural succession of animal or plant communities in an ecosystem, especially a series of communities succeeding one another from the time a habitat is unoccupied to the point when a climax community is achieved. [from early 20th c.]

   Synonym: seral community

Hyponyms

• hydrosere
• lithosere
• psammosere

Derived terms

• seral

Translations

Etymology 3

From Old French serre (modern French serre (“talon”)), from serrer (“to grip tightly; to shut”) (modern French serrer (“to squeeze; to tighten”)), from Vulgar Latin serr?re (“to close, shut”), from Late Latin ser?re, present active infinitive of ser? (“to fasten with a bolt; to bar, bolt”), from sera (“bar for fastening doors”), from ser? (“to bind or join together; entwine, interlace, interweave, plait”); see further at etymology 2.

Noun

sere (plural seres)

1. (obsolete) A claw, a talon.

Etymology 4

From Middle English ser, sere, schere, seer, seere, seir, seyr, seyre (“different; diverse, various; distinct, individual; parted, separated; many, several”), from Old Norse sér (“for oneself; separately”, dative reflexive pronoun, literally “to oneself”), from sik (“oneself, myself, yourself, herself, himself; ourselves, yourselves, themselves”), from Proto-Germanic *sek (“oneself”), from Proto-Indo-European *swé (“self”). The English word is cognate with Danish sær (“singular”), især (“especially, particularly”), German sich (“oneself; herself, himself, itself; themselves”), Icelandic sig (“oneself; herself, himself, itself; themselves”), Latin s? (“herself, himself, itself; themselves”), Scots seir, Swedish sär (“particularly”).

Adjective

sere (comparative more sere, superlative most sere)

1. (obsolete or Britain, dialectal) Individual, separate, set apart.
2. (obsolete or Britain, dialectal) Different; diverse.

Alternative forms

• seer

Derived terms

• serely

References

Further reading

• sere (ecology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• EERs, Erse, REEs, Rees, SEER, eres, rees, rese, seer

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?s?r?]

Verb

sere

1. third-person singular present indicative of srát

Friulian

Etymology

From Late Latin s?ra, from ellipsis of Latin s?ra di?s, from s?rus (“late”). Compare Italian sera, Venetian séra, Romansch saira, seira, Romanian sear?, French soir.

Noun

sere f (plural seris)

1. evening

Derived terms

• buine sere

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French serrer.

Verb

sere

1. tighten, squeeze

Adjective

sere

1. tight

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?se?.re], /?sere/
• Hyphenation: sé?re
• Rhymes: -ere

Noun

sere f

1. plural of sera

Anagrams

• erse, rese

Latin

Etymology 1

Form of the verb ser? (“I sow or plant”).

Verb

sere

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ser?

Etymology 2

Form of the verb ser? (“I join or weave”).

Verb

sere

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ser?

Etymology 3

Form of s?rus.

Adjective

s?re

1. vocative masculine singular of s?rus

Leonese

Etymology

From Latin esse (“to be”). The present subjunctive is influenced by Latin sede? (“sit”) (present infinitive sed?re).

Verb

sere

1. to be

Conjugation

References

• AEDLL

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch s?ro. Equivalent to sêer +? -e.

Adverb

sêre

1. strongly, very, to a great degree
2. hard, forcefully
3. fast, with speed

Descendants

• Dutch: zeer
• Limburgish: zieër

Further reading

• “sere”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “sere”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English s?ar, from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz. Doublet of sor (“sorrel”).

Alternative forms

• ser, seere, seer, seir

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??r/

Adjective

sere

2. (especially referring to plants) dry, withered, shrunken, brittle

Descendants

• English: sear, sere, sare

References

• “s?r(e, adj.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 26 March 2018.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse sér, dative of sik, from Proto-Germanic *siz, dative and instrumental of *sek, from Proto-Indo-European *swé (“self”).

Alternative forms

• ser, schere, seer, seere, seir, seyr, seyre

Pronunciation

• (adjective) IPA^(key): /se?r/
• (adverb) IPA^(key): /?se?r(?)/

Adjective

sere

2. Individual, separate, set apart.
3. Different; diverse.
4. Numerous, many, copious.

References

• “s??r(e, adj.(2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 28 April 2019.

Descendants

• English: sere

Adverb

sere

1. Separately, severally.

References

• “s??re, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 August 2019.

Etymology 3

From Old French seür.

Adjective

sere

1. Alternative form of sure

Northern Kurdish

Adjective

sere

1. old

Shona

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

-séré

1. eight

Inflection

Turkish

Alternative forms

• sele

Noun

sere (definite accusative sereyi, plural sereler)

1. (informal) a measure of distance, being the span, when spreading one’s fingers, from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the index finger.

References

• sere in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

Zazaki

Etymology

Related to Persian ??? (sar).

Noun

sere ?

1. (anatomy) head

English

Etymology

sere +? -al

Adjective

seral (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to a sere.

Anagrams

• Arels, LASER, Lares, Laser, Searl, arles, arsle, earls, lares, laser, lears, rales, reals, saler