English

series

/ˈsɪə.ɹiːz/
A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.

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    Origin

    Attested from the 1610s; borrowed from Latin seriēs, from serere (“to join together, bind”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together, to line up”). Related to desert, insert, sermon, and sorcerer.

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    • borrowedLatinseriēs “row, chain”
      • partLatinserō “to sow”
        • inheritedProto-Italic*serō
      • partLatin-iēs
        • inheritedProto-Italic*-jēs
    • derivedLatinseriēs “row, chain”

    Words built on it: 系列

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