Seres

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

Seres

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

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

Seres

1. A surname.

Seres f

1. Ceres (dwarf planet)

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈseː.reːs/, [ˈs̠eːreːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.res/, [ˈsɛːres]

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.

Third-declension noun.

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

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

• “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.