serum – Latin noun declension

Noun: serum
Hyphenation:

Gender: Neuter Declension: Second

Nominative

Singular	serum
Plural	sera

Genitive

Singular	serī
Plural	serōrum

Dative

Singular	serō
Plural	serīs

Accusative

Singular	serum
Plural	sera

Ablative

Singular	serō
Plural	serīs

Vocative

Singular	serum
Plural	sera

Sample Sentences

Nec tibi cūra canum fuerit postrēma, sed ūnā
vēlōcis Spartae catulōs ācremque Molossum (Nor let the concern for your dogs be the last, but in the same way

the brave Molossan and the whelps of the swift Spartan

feed with fat whey.) [c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon 3.404–406]
Būbulī serum orthopnoicīs prōdest ante cētera additō nāsturtiō. (Whey of cows is more beneficial to asthmatics than others when cress is added to it.) [77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 28.130]
Quid dīcam, Gellī, quārē rosea ista labella
hībernā fīant candidiōra nive,
māne domō cum exīs et cum tē octāva quiēte
ē mollī longō suscitat hōra diē?
Nesciŏquid certest: an vērē fāma susurrat
grandia tē mediī tenta vorāre virī?
Sīc certest: clāmant Victōris rupta miselli
īlia, et ēmulsō barba notāta serō.
What shall I say, Gellius, how these rosy lips (when you walk out of the house when the eighth hour

rouses you from soft rest in the long day?

Something's sure: perhaps your reputation whispers truthfully

that you devour the large protuberance of a man's middle?

So is it certain: thus the broken loins of the poor Victor

cry, and the beard marked with the milked-out semen.) [c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 80]

Nouns inflected like serum

palmētum, miliardum, rēctangulum, bactērium, frūctum, melimēlum, scītum, scūtum, lanthanum, sertum, sacrum, pentaptōtum, dēcrēmentum, sorbum, fundibulum, alphabētum, siglum, signum, flābrum, nūtrīmentum, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *serom (“liquid”), from Proto-Indo-European *sér-o- (“flowing, liquid”), from *ser- (“to flow, run”); cognate with Sanskrit सर (sará, “flowing”), सार (sā́ra, “curd, cream”), सारण (sāraṇa, “flowing, buttermilk”), and Ancient Greek ὀρός (orós, “whey, curd, semen”). See: Ancient Greek Nouns 'ὀρός'.

Verbs referencing "serum"

Romanian Nouns ser, English Nouns serum, Dutch Nouns serum, Romanian Nouns zer, Spanish Nouns suero, French Nouns sérum, Finnish Nouns seerumi, Galician Nouns soro, Portuguese Nouns soro, Latvian Nouns sērs, German Nouns Serum, Ancient Greek Nouns ὀρός.