Where does “serum” come from?

serum (Dutch) comes from Latin Serum, from Proto-Indo-European sēr-, from Proto-Indo-European ser- — to flow; to guard; to bind, to tie together.

serum (Dutch): blood serum

Definitions

  1. blood serum

Ancestry of “serum”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinSerumwhey
2Proto-Indo-Europeansēr-to flow
3Proto-Indo-Europeanser-to flow; to guard; to bind, to tie together

Words derived from “serum”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ser- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European sēr- →Every word from Latin Serum →
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