Seresとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Latin Sērēs, from Ancient Greek Σῆρες (Sêres, “the North Chinese; North China”), from σήρ (sḗr, “silkworm”), possibly from Old Chinese 絲 (*sə, “silk”).

固有名詞

Seres

1. (historical or archaic, uncountable, collective) Synonym of Chinese or Northern Chinese, chiefly in the context of ancient Greco-Roman knowledge of China.

等位語

• Sinae (Southern Chinese as known to the ancient Greeks and Romans)

関連する語

語源 2

固有名詞

Seres

1. A surname.

アナグラム

• seers, reses, Esser

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈseː.reːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈsɛː.res]

固有名詞

Sērēs m pl (genitive Sērum); third declension (singular Sēr)

1. (rare in the singular, historical) The Seres, the northern Chinese reached by the overland Silk Road to Chang'an (Xi'an) as opposed to the Sinae reached by the maritime Silk Road to Panyu (Guangzhou), unknown in antiquity to be related to one another.
2. (rare in the singular, New Latin) Synonym of Sinae, the Chinese.

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

等位語

• Sīnae (southern Chinese as known to the ancient Greeks and Romans)

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• English: Seres
• Portuguese: Seres
• Spanish: Seres

参照

• “Seres”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Seres in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.