sere

Betekenis (Engels)

Adj

1. (archaic, literary, poetic) Without moisture; dry.
2. (archaic, literary, poetic) Of thoughts, etc.: barren, fruitless.
3. (obsolete) Of fabrics: threadbare, worn out.

Noun

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.

Noun

A claw, a talon.

Sinonieme

sear

withered

shriveled

faded

arid

dried-up

dry

shrivelled

wizened

droughty

terse

wilted

cachectic

wizen

succession spectrum

seared

languishing

Vertalings

seco

marchito

vertrocknet

welk

verwelkt

μαραμένος

ξηρός

sec

flétri

إحرق

reseco

trocken

verdorrt

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/sɪə/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: ser

Geërf van Old English: sēar

Verwante met Nederlands: zoor

Verwante met Grieks: αὖος

Verwante met Litaus: sausas

Verwante met Middle Low German: sôr

Verwante met Nederduits: soor

Verwante met Kerkslawies: suχŭ

In summary

From Middle English ser, sere, seare, seer, seere, seir, seyr (“dry, withered; emaciated, shrivelled; brittle; bare; dead, lifeless; barren, useless”), from Old English sēar, sīere (“dry, withered; barren; sere”), from Proto-West Germanic *sauʀ(ī), from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz (“dry, parched”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂sews-, *sh₂ews- (“to be dry”).
Cognate with Dutch zoor (“dry and coarse”), Greek αὖος (av́os, “dry”), Lithuanian sausas (“dry”), Middle Low German sôr (Low German soor (“arid, dry”)), Old Church Slavonic соухъ (suχŭ, “dry”). Doublet of sear and sare.