Where does “serum” come from?

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

serum (Serbo-Croatian): serum

Definitions

  1. 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
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