serena
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English
Etymology
From Italian serena, feminine of sereno. Compare Spanish serena (“dew”).
Noun
serena (uncountable)
- Obsolete form of serene (“fine rain from a cloudless sky after sunset”, noun).
- 1594, Thomas Nashe, The terrors of the night, or, A discourse of apparitions:
- Fie, fie, was euer poore fellow so farre benighted in an old wiues tale of diuells and vrchins. Out vpon it, I am wearie of it, for it hath caused such a thicke fulsome Serena to descend on my braine, that now my penne makes blots as broad as a furd stomacher, and my muse inspyres me to put out my candle and goe to bed: […]
- 1589-1600, Robert Dudley, “A voyage of the honourable Gentleman M. Robert Duddeley, now knight, to the isle of Trinidad, and the coast of Paria”, in Richard Hakluyt, editor, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation:
- But not desirous to make any longer aboad in this place, by reason of the most infectious serenas or dewes that fall all along these coasts of Africa, […]
- 1723, William Darrell, The Gentleman Instructed, in the Conduct of a Virtuous and Happy Life (8th edition)[1], page 108:
- For indeed they had already by way of Precaution, armed themselves against the Serena with a Caudle.
See also
Anagrams
Asturian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Late Latin sirēna, from Latin Sīrēn, from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn).
Pronunciation
Noun
serena f (plural serenes)
Catalan
Adjective
serena
Esperanto
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
serena (accusative singular serenan, plural serenaj, accusative plural serenajn)
Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Adjective
serena f sg
Etymology 2
Verb
serena
- inflection of serenare:
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- serēna: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /seˈreː.na/, [s̠ɛˈreːnä]
- serēna: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /seˈre.na/, [seˈrɛːnä]
- serēnā: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /seˈreː.naː/, [s̠ɛˈreːnäː]
- serēnā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /seˈre.na/, [seˈrɛːnä]
Adjective
serēna
- inflection of serēnus:
Adjective
serēnā
References
- serena 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)
- “serena”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “serena”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
Portuguese
Etymology 1
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -enɐ
- Hyphenation: se‧re‧na
Adjective
serena
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
Verb
serena
- inflection of serenar:
Spanish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
serena f (plural serenas)
- female equivalent of sereno
Adjective
serena
Etymology 2
Verb
serena
- inflection of serenar:
Further reading
- “serena”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Adjective
serena
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