serif

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

A short line added to the end of a stroke in traditional typefaces, such as Times New Roman.

Adj

Of a typeface, provided with serifs.

Conceptos

base

cimiento

fundación

gracia

remate

serifa

bigotello

Opuesto a

sans serif

Sinónimos

seriph

foundation wall

Traducciones

empattement

schreef

serifa

Serife

grazia

sérif

Text

Serif(e)

fonament

Schraffe

Serif

-n

ελαφρή γραμμή

Text zu einer Rolle

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈsɛɹɪf/

Etimología (Inglés)

Cognado con italiano: sgraffiare

Cognado con alemán: Schraffe

In summary

From earlier ceriph, ceref, of obscure derivation. There are two (not directly interrelated) candidates for a possible Dutch origin: 1.) the noun schreef (“stroke”, now also “serif” as a semantic loan), related with schrapen (“to scrape”); and 2.) the verb schrafferen (“to provide with horizontal lines, to shade”), from Italian sgraffiare. For the latter, compare German Schraffe (“serif”), although this again may be a semantic loan based on the English word rather than original to it. Alternatively, from Late Latin cerificus (“waxen”), from Latin cera (“wax”), after the ruled lines used in writing on wax tablets.