Noun: serum
| Singular | serum |
| Plural | serums; sera |
Nouns inflected like serum
hemiscrotum,
saeculum,
stramonium,
proscenium,
dinotherium,
quinquennium,
ambulacrum,
prolabium,
preepisternum,
coimperium,
septennium,
fulcrum,
emporium,
subminimum,
mausolæum,
mausoleum,
serpentarium,
triregnum,
viaticum,
megaannum, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ser-
3. Proto-Indo-European *sér-o-der.
4. Proto-Italic *serom
5. Latin serumder.
6. English serum
7. From Latin serum (“whey”). Cognates include French sérum, Spanish suero, Italian siere, siero, Portuguese soro. Doublet of suero. See: Latin Nouns '
serum', French Nouns '
sérum', Spanish Nouns '
suero', Italian Nouns '
siere', Portuguese Nouns '
soro'.