serein

Borrowed from French serein. Doublet of serene.

serein (uncountable)

1. Light rainfall from a cloudless sky after sunset.
   • 2000, Raphael Confiant, Mamzelle Dragonfly

     "She must have caught a chill from the serein, that's all!"

• serene

• Eisner, irenes, seiner, serine, sirene

• IPA^(key): /sə.ʁɛ̃/

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• Homophones: sereins, serin, serins

From Old French serein, probably from seri (“calm, mild”), serrit (with a change of suffix influenced by Latin serēnus), from a verb deriving from Latin serescō, serēscere (“grow dry”), itself from or related to serēnus (“cloudless”), by extension "calm, peaceful".

serein (feminine singular sereine, masculine plural sereins, feminine plural sereines)

1. (of sky) unclouded, clear
2. (figuratively) serene, calm, tranquil

• sereinement

• rasséréner
• sérénade
• sérénité

Either from Latin serenum (“good weather”), or from Old French serein (“evening”), from Latin serum.

serein m (plural sereins)

1. (literary or regional) serein

• insère, inséré, reines, renies, résine, résiné, seiner, sirène

• “serein” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• serain

From seri (“calm, mild”), serrit (with a change of suffix influenced by Latin serēnus), from a verb deriving from Latin serescō, serēscere (“grow dry”), itself from or related to serēnus (“cloudless”), by extension "calm, peaceful".

serein m (oblique and nominative feminine singular sereine)

1. serene, calm, tranquil

• French: serein

From a derivative of Latin serum.

serein m (oblique plural sereinz, nominative singular sereinz, nominative plural serein)

1. evening

• French: serein