sereneとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English, borrowed from Latin serēnus (“clear, cloudless, untroubled”).

形容詞

serene (comparative more serene または serener, superlative most serene または serenest)

1. Peaceful, calm, unruffled.

   She looked at her students with joviality and a serene mentality.

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0045:

     Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.

2. Without worry or anxiety; unaffected by disturbance.
3. (archaic) fair and unclouded (as of the sky); clear; unobscured.
   • 1709, Alexander Pope, Pastorals, Daphne:

     The moon, serene in glory, mounts the sky.

   • (Can we date this quote by Thomas Gray かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     Full many a gem of purest ray serene / The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.

   • 1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 6, in http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/shelley/mary/s53f/chapter6.html Frankenstein]:

     A serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstasy.

4. Used as part of certain titles, originally to indicate sovereignty or independence.

   Her Serene Highness

関連する語

• serenity

動詞

serene (三人称単数 現在形 serenes, 現在分詞 serening, 過去形および過去分詞形 serened)

1. (transitive) To make serene.
   • (Can we date this quote by Thomson かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     Heaven and earth, as if contending, vie / To raise his being, and serene his soul.

名詞

serene (複数形 serenes)

1. (poetic) Serenity; clearness; calmness.
   • (Can we date this quote by Southey かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     the serene of heaven

   • (Can we date this quote by Young かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     To their master is denied / To share their sweet serene.

2. Evening air; night chill.
   • (Can we date this quote by Ben Jonson かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     Some serene blast me.

語源 2

Old French serein (“evening”), Vulgar Latin *serānum (from substantive use of sērum, neuter of sērus (“late”)) + -ānus suffix.

名詞

serene (複数形 serenes)

1. A fine rain from a cloudless sky after sunset.

同意語

• serein

参照

• Oxford English Dictionary. serein n. 1.

アナグラム

• reseen

Latin

語源 1

From serēnus +‎ -ē.

副詞

serēnē (comparative serēnius, superlative serēnissimē)

1. clearly, brightly

形容詞

serēne

1. vocative masculine singular of serēnus

参照

• serene in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press