sere

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

sec

flétri

Synonymes

sear

withered

shriveled

faded

arid

dried-up

dry

shrivelled

wizened

droughty

terse

wilted

cachectic

wizen

succession spectrum

seared

languishing

Traductions

seco

marchito

vertrocknet

welk

verwelkt

μαραμένος

ξηρός

إحرق

reseco

trocken

verdorrt

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/sɪə/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: ser

Hérité de ancien anglais: sēar

Appartenant à néerlandais: zoor

Appartenant à grec: αὖος

Appartenant à lituanien: sausas

Appartenant à Middle Low German: sôr

Appartenant à bas-allemand: soor

Appartenant à slavon d’église: 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.