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serena

See also: Serena, serená, and Serēna

English

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Etymology

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From Italian serena, feminine of sereno. Compare Spanish serena (“dew”).

Noun

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serena (uncountable)

  1. 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.

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Asturian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Late Latin sirēna, from Latin Sīrēn, from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn).

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  • IPA(key): /seˈɾena/, [seˈɾe.na]

Noun

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serena f (plural serenes)

  1. (Greek mythology) siren
  2. mermaid
  3. siren (alarm)

Catalan

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Adjective

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serena

  1. feminine singular of serè

Esperanto

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Etymology

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From Latin serēnus.

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  • IPA(key): [seˈrena]
  • Rhymes: -ena
  • Hyphenation: se‧re‧na

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serena (accusative singular serenan, plural serenaj, accusative plural serenajn)

  1. calm, serene

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /seˈre.na/
  • Rhymes: -ena
  • Hyphenation: se‧ré‧na

Etymology 1

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Adjective

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serena f sg

  1. feminine singular of sereno

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Verb

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serena

  1. inflection of serenare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Latin

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serēna

  1. inflection of serēnus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

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serēnā

  1. ablative feminine singular of serēnus

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  • 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

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Etymology 1

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -enɐ
  • Hyphenation: se‧re‧na

Adjective

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serena

  1. feminine singular of sereno

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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Verb

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serena

  1. inflection of serenar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /seˈɾena/ [seˈɾe.na]
  • Rhymes: -ena
  • Syllabification: se‧re‧na

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Noun

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serena f (plural serenas)

  1. female equivalent of sereno

Adjective

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serena

  1. feminine singular of sereno

Etymology 2

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Verb

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serena

  1. inflection of serenar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Swedish

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Adjective

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serena

  1. inflection of seren:
    1. definite singular
    2. plural
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