# sero
## Asturian
### Adverb

sero
* late
    Synonym: tarde

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From Latin serum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsero]
* Rhymes: -ero
* Hyphenation: se‧ro

### Noun

sero (accusative singular seron, plural seroj, accusative plural serojn)
* serum

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Back-formation from pesero (“shareholder”) as per- +‎ sero, from earlier persero, from Portuguese parceiro (“business partner”), from Old Galician-Portuguese parceiro, from Late Latin partiārius, from Latin partiō, from pars.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈse.ro]
* Hyphenation: sé‧ro

### Noun

sero (plural sero-sero)
* (finance, trading) stock, the capital raised by a company through the issue of shares
    Synonyms: andil, saham

#### Derived terms

* perseroan
* pesero

### Further reading

* “sero” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Interlingua
### Noun

sero (plural seros)
* whey
* serum

### Adverb

sero (comparative plus sero, superlative le plus sero)
* late

## Latin
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *sizō, from Proto-Indo-European *sish₁éti, the reduplicated present of *seh₁- (“to sow”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈse.roː/, [ˈs̠ɛroː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈse.ro/, [ˈsɛːro]

#### Verb

serō (present infinitive serere, perfect active sēvī, supine satum); third conjugation
* to sow, plant
    Synonyms: īnserō, disserō, obserō
** c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 1.30:"Serit arborēs, quae alterī saeclō prōsint", ut ait <Statius> in Synephebis, […] "He plants the trees, so that they may serve another generation", as Caecilius Statius says in his Synephebi, […]
* (of persons) to beget, bring forth, produce
* (figuratively) to found, establish; scatter, spread, disseminate; propagate; excite; cause, produce

##### Conjugation

$^1$At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

##### Derived terms

* asserō
* circumserō
* cōnserō
* disserō
* īnserō
* interserō
* obserō
* prōserō
* reserō
* satiō
* satīvus
* sator
* satōrius
* satura
* satus
* subserō

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Italic *serō, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together, to line up”); compare Ancient Greek εἴρω (eírō), Sanskrit सरत् (sarat), Old Lithuanian Lithuanian sėris (“filament”), Old English serc (“shirt, coat of mail”). More at sark.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈse.roː/, [ˈs̠ɛroː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈse.ro/, [ˈsɛːro]

#### Verb

serō (present infinitive serere, perfect active seruī, supine sertum); third conjugation
* (perh. only as past pple.) to link together, entwine, interlace
* (transferred sense) to join in a series, string together
* (certāmina, proelia etc.) to join a battle, engage in conflict
    Synonyms: repugnō, pugnō, contendō, dēcernō, concurrō, certō, bellō, dīmicō, cōnflīgō, committō, dēcertō
* (sermōnēs, colloquia etc.) to engage in conversation, parley
** 1633, Johannes de Laet, Novus orbis seu descriptionis Indiæ occidentalis, Libri XVIII, page 642:[…] perſuadent enim ſe crebro cum dæmone ſermones ſerere, quem Wattipam nominant, & res geſtas in longinquis regionibus ab ipſo edoceri, nec non futuras præmoneri: agnoſcunt autem hunc ſpiritum malum eſſe; neque injuria, nam haud raro miſerum in modum ab ipſo flagellantur.For they persuade themselves that they often hold conversations with a demon whom they call Wattipa, and that they are informed by him of things done in distant regions, and indeed foreshown things to be: but they acknowledge that this spirit is evil; and not without reason, for not infrequently they are scourged by him in a miserable manner.

##### Derived terms

* asserō
* cōnserō
* dēserō
* disserō
* exserō
* īnserō
* interserō
* praesertim
* prōserō
* seriēs
* serīlia
* serta
* sertus
* subserō

### Etymology 3

From sera (“bar for fastening doors”), itself from serō (“to bind”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈse.roː/, [ˈs̠ɛroː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈse.ro/, [ˈsɛːro]

#### Verb

serō (present infinitive serāre, perfect active serāvī, supine serātum); first conjugation
* (Late Latin) to fasten (with a bolt), bar, bolt

##### Derived terms

* obserō
* reserō

##### Descendants

* Aragonese: zarrar
* Asturian: zarrar
* Dalmatian: seruar, inseruor
* Friulian: sierâ
* Galician: cerrar
* Istriot: insierà
* Italian: serrare
* Old French: serrer
** → English: serry
** French: serrer
* Portuguese: cerrar
* Romansch: serrar, sarar
* Sicilian: sirrari
* Spanish: cerrar
* Venetan: serar, sarar

### Etymology 4

From sērus (“late”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈseː.roː/, [ˈs̠eːroː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈse.ro/, [ˈsɛːro]

#### Adjective

sērō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of sērus

#### Adverb

sērō (comparative sērius, superlative sērissimē)
* At a late hour, late, tardily
* Too late

##### Derived terms

* sērōtinus

##### Related terms

* sēritās
* sērus

### Etymology 5

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈse.roː/, [ˈs̠ɛroː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈse.ro/, [ˈsɛːro]

#### Noun

serō
* dative/ablative singular of serum (“whey; serum”)

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “serō, -ere 1”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 557
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “serō, -ere 2”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 557-8

### Further reading

* “serō$^2$” on page 1,923 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
* “sero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “sero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "sero", 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)
* sero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to sow: serere; semen spargere to plant trees: arbores serere (De Sen. 7. 24)

## Lindu
### Noun

sero
* shovel

## Mapudungun
### Numeral

sero (Raguileo spelling)
* zero

## Old Saxon
### Adverb

sero (comparative mēr, superlative mēst)
* much

## Papiamentu
### Etymology

From Spanish cero and Portuguese zero and Kabuverdianu zéru.

### Numeral

sero
* zero (0)

## Sardinian
### Alternative forms

* sera

### Etymology

From Latin sērō adverb form of sērus (“late”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-ro-. Compare Italian sera, French soir, Venetan séra, Friulian sere, Sicilian sira, Romanian seară, Romansch saira.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsero/

### Noun

sero f (plural seros)
* evening

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cero, from New Latin zerum, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Andalusian Arabic صِفْر (ṣífr), from Classical Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “zero, nothing, empty, void”). Doublet of sipra.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈseɾo/ [ˈsɛː.ɾo]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -eɾo
* Syllabification: se‧ro

### Numeral

sero (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜇᜓ)
* zero
    Synonyms: wala, (neologism) awan, (neologism) kopong, (colloquial) itlog, (slang) bokya

#### Derived terms

* seruhan
* seruhin

#### See also

* bokya
* wala

### Noun

sero (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜇᜓ)
* nothing; naught

### Further reading

* “sero”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

### Anagrams

* Rose

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /ˈsɛrɔ/
* (South Wales) IPA: /ˈzeːrɔ/, /ˈzɛrɔ/

### Numeral

sero
* (cardinal number) zero

### Noun

sero m (plural seroau, not mutable)
* zero
    Synonym: dim

#### Derived terms

* ansero (“nonzero”)

### References

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “sero”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies