serene

From Middle English, borrowed from Latin serēnus (“clear, cloudless, untroubled”).

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serene (comparative more serene or serener, superlative most serene or serenest)

1. Peaceful, calm, unruffled.

   She looked at her students with joviality and a serene mentality.

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0045:

     Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.

2. Without worry or anxiety; unaffected by disturbance.
3. (archaic) fair and unclouded (as of the sky); clear; unobscured.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Alexander Pope

     The moon serene in glory mounts the sky.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Thomas Gray

     Full many a gem of purest ray serene / The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.

   • 1818, Mary Shelley, chapter 6, in http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/shelley/mary/s53f/chapter6.html Frankenstein]:

     A serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstasy.

4. Used as part of certain titles, originally to indicate sovereignty or independence.

   Her Serene Highness

• serenity

serene (third-person singular simple present serenes, present participle serening, simple past and past participle serened)

1. (transitive) To make serene.
   • Thomson

     Heaven and earth, as if contending, vie / To raise his being, and serene his soul.

serene (plural serenes)

1. (poetic) Serenity; clearness; calmness.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Southey

     the serene of heaven

   • (Can we date this quote?) Young

     To their master is denied / To share their sweet serene.

2. Evening air; night chill.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Ben Jonson

     Some serene blast me.

Old French serein (“evening”), Vulgar Latin *serānum (from substantive use of sērum, neuter of sērus (“late”)) + -ānus suffix.

serene (plural serenes)

1. A fine rain from a cloudless sky after sunset.

• serein

• Oxford English Dictionary. serein n. 1.

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serene

1. Inflected form of sereen

serena +‎ -e

serene

1. calmly, serenely

serene

1. Feminine plural form of sereno

From serēnus +‎ -ē.

serēnē (comparative serēnius, superlative serēnissimē)

1. clearly, brightly

serēne

1. vocative masculine singular of serēnus

• serene in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

serene

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of serenar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of serenar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of serenar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of serenar.