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. Calm, peaceful, unruffled.

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

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 6:

     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.
   • 1717, Alexander Pope, “Winter. The Fourth Pastoral. […]”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], →OCLC, page 30:

     Now ſleeping flocks on their ſoft fleeces lie, / The moon, ſerene in glory, mounts the sky, […]

   • 1750 June 12 (date written; published 1751), T[homas] Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, in Designs by Mr. R[ichard] Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], published 1753, →OCLC, page 32:

     Full many a gem of pureſt ray ſerene / The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: […]

   • 1818, [Mary Shelley], chapter VI, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, →OCLC:

     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

• all serene
• serenity
• drop serene

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.
   • 1728, James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC, page 34, lines 866–867:

     When heaven and earth, as if contending, vye / To raiſe his being, and ſerene his ſoul.

名詞

serene (複数形 serenes)

1. (poetic) Serenity; clearness; calmness.
   • 1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volumes (please specify |volume=I または II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC:

     the serene of heaven

   • 1742, Edward Young, Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality:

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

語源 2

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

名詞

serene (複数形 serenes)

2. A fine rain from a cloudless sky after sunset.
   • 1605 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Volpone, or The Foxe. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:

     Some serene blast me.

別の表記

• serein
• serena (廃れた用法)

参照

• Oxford English Dictionary. serein n. 1.

アナグラム

• reseen, resene

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