"series" in seven languages
Meaningseries
Spanish
serie
/ˈseɾje/
fem.learned
Invariable plural: las series.
French
série
/seʁi/
fem.learned
Italian
serie
/ˈsɛrje/
fem.learned
Invariable plural: le serie. Serie A is the top football league.
Portuguese
série
/ˈsɛɾji/
fem.learned
Romanian
serial
/seriˈal/
neut.other source · French serial, from English serial (a derivative of Latin SERIĒS)
Serie exists for a series of things; a TV series is a serial.
Catalan
sèrie
/ˈsɛɾiə/
fem.learned
English
series
/ˈsɪɹiz/
from Latin/French · Latin series
English → ItalianseriesserieCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
SERIEM‘row, chain (from SERERE 'to join')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Spanish and Italian keep the Latin accusative SERIEM minus its m; English kept the nominative SERIES whole. All four now use it for TV shows.
English relatives: serial, insert, assert
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In a sentence
- esEstoy viendo una serie nueva.
- frJe regarde une nouvelle série.
- itSto guardando una nuova serie.
- ptEstou vendo uma série nova.
- roMă uit la un serial nou.
- caEstic mirant una sèrie nova.
- enI'm watching a new series.