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English

Etymology

From Latin serum (“whey”). Cognates include French sérum, Spanish suero, Italian siere, siero, Portuguese soro. Doublet of suero.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s????m/, /?si???m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s???m/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?si??m/

Noun

serum (plural serums or sera)

1. The clear yellowish liquid obtained upon separating whole blood into its solid and liquid components after it has been allowed to clot.

   Synonym: blood serum

2. Blood serum from the tissues of immunized animals, containing antibodies and used to transfer immunity to another individual, called antiserum.
3. A watery liquid from animal tissue, especially one that moistens the surface of serous membranes or that is exuded by such membranes when they become inflamed, such as in edema or a blister.
4. The watery portion of certain animal fluids like blood, milk, etc; whey.
5. (skincare) An intensive moisturising product to be applied after cleansing but before a general moisturiser.

Derived terms

Related terms

• sero-

Translations

Further reading

• serum in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• serum in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• serum at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Esrum, Mure?, Muser, Remus, Sumer, merus, mures, murse, muser, resum, semur

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin serum. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se?.r?m/, [?s??.r?m]
• Hyphenation: se?rum

Noun

serum n (plural sera or serums)

1. blood serum

Derived terms

• antiserum
• bloedserum

Latin

Alternative forms

• ser?

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to flow, run”); see also Sanskrit ?? (sara, “flowing”), Sanskrit ??? (s??ra, “curd, cream”), Sanskrit ???? (s?ra?a, “flowing, buttermilk”), and Ancient Greek ???? (horós, “whey, curd, semen”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?se.rum/, [?s??????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?se.rum/, [?s???um]

Noun

serum n (genitive ser?); second declension

1. whey
2. (by extension) some other watery liquid

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

Etymology 2

Adjective

s?rum

1. nominative neuter singular of s?rus

References

• serum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• serum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• serum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• serum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Old Norse

Verb

serum

1. first-person plural past indicative active of sá

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin serum (“whey”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??rum/
• Hyphenation: se?rum

Noun

sérum m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. serum

Declension

Spanish

Noun

serum m (plural serums)

1. serum

English

Alternative forms

• haemopexin

Noun

hemopexin (uncountable)

1. (biochemistry) A serum globulin that binds heme and porphyrins

Translations

• Italian: emopessina (it)