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Definition sere

Etymology 1

From Middle English ser, sere, seare, seer, seere, seir, seyr (“dry, withered; emaciated, shrivelled; brittle; bare; dead, lifeless; barren, useless”), from Old English s?ar, s?ere (“dry, withered; barren; sere”), from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz (“dry, parched”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?sews-, *sh?ews- (“to be dry”). The English word is cognate with Dutch zoor (“dry and coarse”), Greek ???? (a?os, “dry”), Lithuanian sausas (“dry”), Middle Low German sôr (Low German soor (“arid, dry”)), Old Church Slavonic su?? (su??, “dry”), and is a doublet of sear.

Adjective

sere (comparative serer, superlative serest)

1. (archaic or literary, poetic) Without moisture; dry.
2. (obsolete) Of fabrics: threadbare, worn out.

Etymology 2

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

Noun

sere (plural seres)

1. (ecology) A natural succession of animal or plant communities in an ecosystem, especially a series of communities succeeding one another from the time a habitat is unoccupied to the point when a climax community is achieved. [from early 20th c.]

Etymology 3

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 serr?re (“to close, shut”), from Late Latin ser?re, present active infinitive of ser? (“to fasten with a bolt; to bar, bolt”), from sera (“bar for fastening doors”), from ser? (“to bind or join together; entwine, interlace, interweave, plait”); see further at etymology 2.

Noun

sere (plural seres)

1. (obsolete) A claw, a talon.

Etymology 4

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 s? (“herself, himself, itself; themselves”), Scots seir, Swedish sär (“particularly”).

Adjective

sere (comparative more sere, superlative most sere)

1. (obsolete or Britain, dialectal) Individual, separate, set apart.
2. (obsolete or Britain, dialectal) Different; diverse.

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