Serapis

• Sarapis

Borrowed from Latin Serāpis, from Ancient Greek Σάρᾱπις (Sárāpis), from Egyptian wsjr-ḥp, from wsjr (“Osiris”) + ḥp (“Apis”).

Serapis

1. A Graeco-Egyptian god devised during the 3rd century BC as a means to unify the Greeks and Egyptians in the realm of Ptolemy I.

• Serapic

• Serapeum

• Parsies, Paressi, Parises, spireas, paresis, praises, aspires, Arispes

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σάρᾱπις (Sárāpis) (later Σέρᾱπις (Sérāpis)), from Egyptian wsjr-ḥp.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɛˈraː.pɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [seˈraː.pis]

Serāpis m sg (genitive Serāpidis or Serāpis); third declension

1. (Egyptian mythology) Serapis, an Egyptian god.

Third-declension noun (imparisyllabic non-i-stem or i-stem; two different stems), singular only.

• Serāpēum
• Serāpicus

• English: Serapis, m
• French: Sérapis, m

• Serapis on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la

• “Serapis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Serapis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Serapis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.