serena

From Italian serena, feminine of sereno. Compare Spanish serena (“dew”).

serena (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of serene (“fine rain from a cloudless sky after sunset”, noun).
   • 1594, Thomas Nashe, The terrors of the night, or, A discourse of apparitions:

     Fie, fie, was euer poore fellow so farre benighted in an old wiues tale of diuells and vrchins. Out vpon it, I am wearie of it, for it hath caused such a thicke fulsome Serena to descend on my braine, that now my penne makes blots as broad as a furd stomacher, and my muse inspyres me to put out my candle and goe to bed: […]

   • 1589-1600, Robert Dudley, “A voyage of the honourable Gentleman M. Robert Duddeley, now knight, to the isle of Trinidad, and the coast of Paria”, in Richard Hakluyt, editor, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation:

     But not desirous to make any longer aboad in this place, by reason of the most infectious serenas or dewes that fall all along these coasts of Africa, […]

   • 1723, William Darrell, The Gentleman Instructed, in the Conduct of a Virtuous and Happy Life (8th edition)‎^[1], page 108:

     For indeed they had already by way of Precaution, armed themselves against the Serena with a Caudle.

• gutta serena

• arenes, ensear, ranees

• sirena

From Late Latin sirēna, from Latin Sīrēn, from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn).

• IPA^(key): /seˈɾena/ [seˈɾe.na]

serena f (plural serenes)

1. (Greek mythology) siren
2. mermaid
3. siren (alarm)

serena

1. feminine singular of serè

From Latin serēnus.

• IPA^(key): /seˈrena/
• Rhymes: -ena
• Hyphenation: se‧re‧na

serena (accusative singular serenan, plural serenaj, accusative plural serenajn)

1. calm, serene

• IPA^(key): /seˈre.na/
• Rhymes: -ena
• Hyphenation: se‧ré‧na

serena f sg

1. feminine singular of sereno

serena

1. inflection of serenare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• arnese

• serēna: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɛˈreː.na]
• serēna: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [seˈrɛː.na]
• serēnā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɛˈreː.naː]
• serēnā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [seˈrɛː.na]

serēna

1. inflection of serēnus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

serēnā

1. ablative feminine singular of serēnus

• "serena", 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)
• “serena”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “serena”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Rhymes: -enɐ
• Hyphenation: se‧re‧na

serena

1. feminine singular of sereno

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛnɐ, (Brazil) -enɐ, (Brazil) -ẽnɐ
• Hyphenation: se‧re‧na

serena

1. inflection of serenar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /seˈɾena/ [seˈɾe.na]
• Rhymes: -ena
• Syllabification: se‧re‧na

serena f (plural serenas)

1. female equivalent of sereno

serena

1. feminine singular of sereno

serena

1. inflection of serenar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “serena”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

serena

1. inflection of seren:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural