# serra
## English
### Etymology

From Latin serra.

### Noun

serra (plural serrae)
* A saw, or saw-like part.

### Anagrams

* Sarre, rares, rears

## Asturian
### Alternative forms

* sierra
* xerra

### Etymology

From Latin serra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsera/ [ˈse.ra]
* Rhymes: -era
* Hyphenation: se‧rra

### Noun

serra f (plural serres)
* saw (tool)

#### Related terms

* serrar

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈsɛ.rə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈsɛ.ra]
* Homophone: cerra
* Audio (Catalonia):(file)

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan serra, from Latin serra.

#### Noun

serra f (plural serres)
* saw (tool)
* sierra, mountain range

##### Derived terms

* motoserra
* serra circular
* serra corona
* serra d'arc
* serra d'arquet
* serra de cinta
* serra de marqueteria
* serra de vogir
* serra radial
* serral
* xerrac

##### Related terms

* serrar

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

serra
* inflection of serrar (“to saw”):
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

serra
* inflection of serrar (“to squeeze; to clench”):
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### References

* “serra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
* “serra” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “serra”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “serra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Corsican
### Alternative forms

* sarra, serrale, sarrale

### Etymology

From Latin serra (“saw”), from Proto-Italic *serzā, from Proto-Indo-European *sers- (“to cut off”). Cognates include Portuguese serra and Spanish sierra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɛrːa/
* Hyphenation: ser‧ra

### Noun

serra f (plural serre)
* (geography) sierra, mountain range

### References

* “serra, serrale, sarra, sarrale” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɛ.ʁa/ ~ /se.ʁa/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

serra
* third-person singular past historic of serrer

### Anagrams

* erras, rares, raser, Sarre

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɛra/ [ˈs̺ɛ.rɐ]
* Rhymes: -ɛra
* Hyphenation: se‧rra

### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese serra, from Latin serra. Cognate with Portuguese serra and Spanish sierra.

#### Noun

serra f (plural serras)
* saw
* (geography) sierra, mountain range
    Synonym: cordal
* (geography) highland

##### Derived terms

* Serra
* serro
* serrón

##### Related terms

* serradoiro
* serrar

### Etymology 2

From Latin sera.

#### Noun

serra f (plural serras)
* bolt; bar for fastening doors
    Synonyms: ferrollo, tranca

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “serra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “serra”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “serra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “serra”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “serra”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Italian
### Etymology 1

From serrare.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɛr.ra/
* Rhymes: -ɛrra
* Hyphenation: sèr‧ra

#### Noun

serra f (plural serre)
* greenhouse, glasshouse

##### Related terms

* effetto serra

##### Descendants

* → Turkish: sera

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

serra
* inflection of serrare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* serra in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
* serra in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
* serra in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
* serra in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

## Kabuverdianu
### Etymology

From Portuguese serra.

### Noun

serra
* wahoo, Acanthocybium solandri

### References

* Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN

## Latin
### Etymology

According to De Vaan, from Proto-Italic *serzā, from Proto-Indo-European *sers-eh₂, from *sers- (“to cut off”), from which he also notes Schrijver's derivation of sarrio from a zero-grade of such a root.
Compare, however, Proto-Celtic *serrā (“sickle, scythe; billhook”), with a different etymology.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈser.ra/, [ˈs̠ɛrːä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈser.ra/, [ˈsɛrːä]

### Noun

serra f (genitive serrae); first declension
* a saw (tool)
* a kind of sawfish
* (military) a serrated battle order

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Related terms

* serrābilis
* serrāgo
* serrātim
* serrātōrius
* serrātūra
* serrātus
* serrō
* serrula

#### Descendants

* Albanian: sharrë (disputed)
* Aromanian: sharã
* Asturian: serra
* Basque: zerra
* Catalan: serra
* Galician: serra
* Occitan: sèrra
* Portuguese: serra
* Sardinian: sera
* Sicilian: serra
* Spanish: sierra
** → English: sierra

### References

* “serra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “serra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* serra 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)
* serra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “serra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “serra”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “serra”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 558

## Maltese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian serra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɛr.ra/

### Noun

serra f
* red-breasted merganser (Mergus serrator)

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsɛ.ʁɐ/ [ˈsɛ.hɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsɛ.ʁɐ/ [ˈsɛ.hɐ]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈsɛ.ʁɐ/ [ˈsɛ.χɐ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈsɛ.ʁa/ [ˈsɛ.ha]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈsɛ.ʁɐ/
* Homophone: cerra
* Hyphenation: ser‧ra

### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese serra, from Latin serra.

#### Noun

serra f (plural serras)
* saw (tool)
* chain (of mountains)

##### Related terms

* serrar
* serrote

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

serra
* inflection of serrar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “serra”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
* “serra”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
* “serra” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
* “serra”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “serra”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “serra”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Sicilian
### Etymology

From Latin serra.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɛʐ.ʐa/
* Hyphenation: sèr‧ra

### Noun

serra f (plural serri)
* saw
* chain (of mountains)

#### Derived terms

* motu-serra
* serra Casali
* serra Vitranu
* sirrari
* sirratu
* sirratura
* sirratura
* sirràculu
* surtanu