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Where does “serous” come from?

Serous comes from French séreux, from Latin serosus, from Latin serum, from Proto-Indo-European ser-.

serous (English): Containing, secreting, or resembling serum;...

Definitions

  1. Containing, secreting, or resembling serum;...

Ancestry of “serous”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchséreuxserous
2Latinserosus—
3LatinSerum—
4Proto-Indo-Europeansēr-—
5Proto-Indo-Europeanser-to flow; to guard; to bind, to tie together

Words derived from “serous”

  • subserous
  • intraserous
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