Where does “serum” come from?

Serum comes from Latin serum, which derives from Proto-Indo-European ser-, a root of uncertain original meaning.

serum (English): The clear yellowish liquid obtained upon...

Definitions

  1. The clear yellowish liquid obtained upon...

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- →