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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

Noun

zymosan (countable and uncountable, plural zymosans)

1. (biochemistry) an insoluble carbohydrate, obtained from the cell walls of yeast, used in the bioassay of blood serum