Where does “Serum” come from?

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

Serum (Latin): whey

Definitions

  1. whey

Ancestry of “Serum”, step by step

Serum traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Indo-European sēr-

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

via Proto-Italic *serom

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Italic*serom—

Words derived from “Serum”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ser- →