Noun: ser
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | ser |
| Plural m | seres |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like ser
royal flush,
depurador,
sector,
sensor,
scâner,
sketch,
ordenador,
arquichanceler,
benzoar,
amanhecer,
agrafador,
separador,
chamariz,
chafariz,
retentor,
umidificador,
functor,
conjugador,
bogatyr,
bogatir, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Old Galician-Portuguese ser, from Early Medieval Latin essere, from Latin esse. The forms sou (“I am”) and sois pl (“you are”) derive from a Vulgar Latin *sonō and *sutis.
2. Along the way, the verb absorbed Old Galician-Portuguese seer < Latin sedēre (“sit”). The latter supplied the present subjunctive of modern ser, where /-ʒ-/ reflects Late Latin /-(d)j-/, as in seja < sedeat). See: Latin Nouns '
sum'.
Translations
get, colloquial: to be