sericus

Latin

From Sēricus and Ancient Greek σηρικός (sērikós, “silken”), from σήρ (sḗr, “silkworm”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”), possibly ultimately from the Old Chinese word for silk. Equivalent to Seres +‎ -icus.

sēricus (feminine sērica, neuter sēricum); first/second-declension adjective

silken, made of silk
silky, silklike
(historical) Alternative letter-case form of Sēricus, of or related to the Seres or (New Latin) the Chinese

First/second-declension adjective.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	sēricus	sērica	sēricum	sēricī	sēricae	sērica
Genitive	sēricī	sēricae	sēricī	sēricōrum	sēricārum	sēricōrum
Dative	sēricō	sēricae	sēricō	sēricīs
Accusative	sēricum	sēricam	sēricum	sēricōs	sēricās	sērica
Ablative	sēricō	sēricā	sēricō	sēricīs
Vocative	sērice	sērica	sēricum	sēricī	sēricae	sērica

→ English: seric
Italian: serico
→ Old English: seolc, seoluc, seoloc, sioluc
- Middle English: selk, silk
  - Scots: selk, silke, silk
  - English: silk
Old French: sarge
- Middle French: sarge
  - French: serge
    - English: serge
Old Galician-Portuguese: sirgo, silgo
- Galician: sirgo
- Portuguese: sirgo
→ Portuguese: sérico
Spanish: sirgo
→ Spanish: sérico

“sericus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
sericus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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