serius

Borrowed from English serious and Dutch serieus, from Medieval Latin sēriōsus, an extension of Latin sērius (“grave, earnest, serious”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“heavy”).

• (Standard Indonesian)
  • IPA^(key): (Standard, English-influenced) /səˈrius/ [səˈri.ʊs]
  • IPA^(key): (Dutch-influenced) /sɛˈrius/ [sɛˈri.ʊs]
• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: se‧ri‧us

sêrius

1. serious

• “serius” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Somewhat disputed. There are two main competing hypotheses:^[1]

• Usually held to derive via Proto-Italic *swerjos from Proto-Indo-European *swer-yo-s, from the root *swer- (“heavy”). Cognate with Old English swǣr (“heavy, grave, grievous”), German schwer (“hard, difficult, heavy”), Lithuanian sverti (“to weigh, balance”), svarùs (“heavy”). More at sweer.
• According to De Vaan, rather from Proto-Italic *sērjos, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-ro-s + *-yo-, from an uncertain root *seh₁- (“to go slowly?”) (cf. sēgnis (“slow, tardy, sluggish, lazy”)). In this case, equivalent to sērus (“slow, tardy”) +‎ -ius, with semantic shift "slow" > "tiring" > "heavy" > "grave, serious".

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈseː.ri.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛː.ri.us]

sērius (feminine sēria, neuter sērium); first/second-declension adjective

1. grave, earnest, serious

First/second-declension adjective.

• sēriōsus

• Asturian: seriu
• Italian: serio
  • → Polish: serio
• Portuguese: sério
• Spanish: serio
  • → Catalan: sério
  • → Sicilian: sèriu

sērius

1. comparative degree of sērō

• “serius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “serius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "serius", 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)
• serius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • two days late: biduo serius
    
  • (ambiguous) to say in earnest..: serio dicere (Plaut. Bacch. 1. 1. 42)
    
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “serious”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• seres, siyes (slang)
• srs (Internet, text messaging)

Borrowed from English serious, from Middle English seryows, from Old French serieux, from Medieval Latin sēriōsus, an extension of Latin sērius (“grave, earnest, serious”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“heavy”).

• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): /ˈsirjəs/ [ˈsi.rjəs] (English-based)
  • Rhymes: -irjəs, -əs
• (Baku) IPA^(key): /ˈserjus/ [ˈse.rjus]
  • Rhymes: -irjus, -us
• Hyphenation: se‧rius

sérius (Jawi spelling سيريوس)

1. Serious:
   1. Without humor or expression of happiness; grave in manner or disposition.

      Serius je muka dia.

      His face just stays serious.

   2. Important; weighty; not insignificant.

      Ini masalah serius.

      This is a serious problem.

   3. Really intending what is said (or planned, etc); in earnest; not jocular or deceiving.

      Audiens tersenyum paksa, terkeliru sama ada pengucap serius atau sedang melawak apabila mengatakan bahawa dia membenci kesatuan sekerja.

      The audience put on a smile, confused as to whether the speaker was being serious or just joking when he said that he hated trade unions.

serius (Jawi spelling سيريوس)

1. Used to express disbelief; seriously, for real.

   Synonyms: sungguh, biar betul, biar betik

   Serius, harga telefon ni lebih daripada $3000?!

   Seriously, this phone costs more than $3000?!

• “serius” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.