sere

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• Received-Pronunciation: /sɪə/
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• General-American: /sɪ(ə)ɹ/
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• rhymes with -ɪə(ɹ)
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• homophone: cere
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• homophone: seer
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• homophone: sear
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• US: /sɪɚ/
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• UK: /sɪə̯(ɹ)/
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• homophone: sere
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• CMU ARPABET: S IH1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English ser, sere, seare, seer, seere, seir, seyr (“dry, withered; emaciated, shrivelled; brittle; bare; dead, lifeless; barren, useless”), from Old English sēar, sīere (“dry, withered; barren; sere”), from Proto-West Germanic *sauʀ(ī), from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz (“dry, parched”), from Proto-Indo-European *h2sews-, *sh2ews- (“to be dry”). Cognate with Dutch zoor (“dry and coarse”), Greek αὖος (ávos, “dry”), Lithuanian sausas (“dry”), Middle Low German sôr (Low German soor (“arid, dry”)), Old Church Slavonic соухъ (suχŭ, “dry”). Doublet of sear and sare.

From Middle English ser, sere, schere, seer, seere, seir, seyr, seyre (“different; diverse, various; distinct, individual; parted, separated; many, several”), from Old Norse sér (“for oneself; separately”, dative reflexive pronoun, literally “to oneself”), from sik (“oneself, myself, yourself, herself, himself; ourselves, yourselves, themselves”), from Proto-Germanic *sek (“oneself”), from Proto-Indo-European *swé (“self”). The English word is cognate with Danish sær (“singular”), især (“especially, particularly”), German sich (“oneself; herself, himself, itself; themselves”), Icelandic sig (“oneself; herself, himself, itself; themselves”), Latin sē (“herself, himself, itself; themselves”), Scots seir, Swedish sär (“particularly”).

From Latin serere, present active infinitive of serō (“to entwine, interlace, link together; to join in a series, string together”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, tie together; to thread”).

From Old French serre (modern French serre (“talon”)), from serrer (“to grip tightly; to shut”) (modern French serrer (“to squeeze; to tighten”)), from Vulgar Latin serrāre (“to close, shut”), from Late Latin serāre, present active infinitive of serō (“to fasten with a bolt; to bar, bolt”), from sera (“bar for fastening doors”), from serō (“to bind or join together; entwine, interlace, interweave, plait”); see further at etymology 2.

20 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Czech: vyprahlý — without moisture — see also dry
• Finnish: kuivunut — without moisture — see also dry
• German: trocken — without moisture — see also dry
• German: verwelkt — without moisture — see also dry
• German: verdorrt — without moisture — see also dry
• German: vertrocknet — without moisture — see also dry
• German: welk — without moisture — see also dry
• Māori: parā — without moisture — see also dry
• Plautdietsch: drieech — without moisture — see also dry
• Romanian: veșted — without moisture — see also dry
• Russian: сухо́й (suxój) — without moisture — see also dry
• Russian: иссу́шенный (issúšennyj) — without moisture — see also dry
• Russian: увя́дший (uvjádšij) — without moisture — see also dry
• Spanish: seco — without moisture — see also dry
• Spanish: marchito — without moisture — see also dry
• German: Folge- — natural succession of animal or plant communities
• German: Zwischen- — natural succession of animal or plant communities
• German: Folgestadium — natural succession of animal or plant communities
• German: Zwischenstadium — natural succession of animal or plant communities
• Hungarian: szukcessziós sorozat — natural succession of animal or plant communities