sericus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Sēricus and Ancient Greek σηρικός (sērikós, “silken”), from σήρ (sḗr, “silkworm”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”), possibly ultimately from the Old Chinese word for silk. Equivalent to Seres + -icus.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈseː.ri.kus/, [ˈs̠eːrɪkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈse.ri.kus/, [ˈsɛːrikus]
Adjective[edit]
sēricus (feminine sērica, neuter sēricum); first/second-declension adjective
- silken, made of silk
- silky, silklike
- (historical) Alternative letter-case form of Sēricus, of or related to the Seres or (New Latin) the Chinese
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | sēricus | sērica | sēricum | sēricī | sēricae | sērica | |
Genitive | sēricī | sēricae | sēricī | sēricōrum | sēricārum | sēricōrum | |
Dative | sēricō | sēricō | sēricīs | ||||
Accusative | sēricum | sēricam | sēricum | sēricōs | sēricās | sērica | |
Ablative | sēricō | sēricā | sēricō | sēricīs | |||
Vocative | sērice | sērica | sēricum | sēricī | sēricae | sērica |
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → English: seric
- Italian: serico
- → Old English: seolc, seoluc, seoloc, sioluc
- Old French: sarge
- Old Galician-Portuguese: sirgo, silgo
- → Portuguese: sérico
- Spanish: sirgo
- → Spanish: sérico
References[edit]
- “sericus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sericus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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