serius

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“heavy”). Cognate with Old English swǣr (“heavy, grave, grievous”), German schwer (“hard, difficult, heavy”), Lithuanian sverti (“to weigh, balance”), svarùs (“heavy”). More at sweer.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈseː.ri.us/, [ˈseː.ri.ʊs]

Adjective

sērius (feminine sēria, neuter sērium); first/second declension

  1. grave, earnest, serious
  2. (figurative) late, tardy, belated

Inflection

First/second declension.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
nominative sērius sēria sērium sēriī sēriae sēria
genitive sēriī sēriae sēriī sēriōrum sēriārum sēriōrum
dative sēriō sēriō sēriīs
accusative sērium sēriam sērium sēriōs sēriās sēria
ablative sēriō sēriā sēriō sēriīs
vocative sērie sēria sērium sēriī sēriae sēria

Adverb

serius

  1. comparative degree of sērō

Descendants

Adverb

serius

  1. comparative degree of laetē

References

  • serius in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • serius in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • serius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • serius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • two days late: biduo serius
    • (ambiguous) to say in earnest..: serio dicere (Plaut. Bacch. 1. 1. 42)
  • serious in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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