Noun: serea
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | serea |
| Plural f | sereas |
Sample Sentences
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Cõmo Vlixas cõtou a el rrey Ydamenés cõmo escapara dos perígoos das sereas do mar (Ulysses told king Ydamenes how he escaped of the dangers of the sirens of the sea) [1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 716:]
Nouns inflected like serea
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Attested circa 1300 (serea). From Old Galician-Portuguese *serẽa, from Late Latin sirēna, from Sīrēn (“siren”), from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn). Cognate with Portuguese sereia and Spanish sirena. See: Portuguese Nouns '
sereia', Spanish Nouns '
sirena'.
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