series

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English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪə.ɹiːz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪɹiz/, /ˈsiɹiz/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪəɹɪ.ɪz/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)iːz
• Homophones: Siri's, Siris, Ceres

Noun

series (plural series or (obsolete) serieses)

1. A number of things that follow on one after the other or are connected one after the other.

   Synonyms: chain, line, sequence, stream, succession; see also Thesaurus:sequence
2. (broadcasting) A television or radio program consisting of several episodes that are broadcast at regular intervals.

   Synonyms: show, program

3. (broadcasting, chiefly UK) Synonym of season (“one of the groups of episodes that together make up a whole series”)

4. (Discuss⁽⁺⁾ this sense) (mathematics) The sequence of partial sums ${displaystyle \sum _{i=1}^{a_}}$ of a given sequence a_i.

5. (cricket, baseball) A group of matches between two sides, with the aim being to win more matches than the opposition.

6. (zoology) An unranked taxon.
8. (botany) A subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.
9. (commerce) A parcel of rough diamonds of assorted qualities.
10. (phonology) A set of consonants that share a particular phonetic or phonological feature.

Usage notes

• (broadcasting): In North American English, a year-long group of episodes of a television or radio show is called a season, whereas the word series is a synonym of program or show.
• (mathematics): Beginning students often confuse series with sequence.

Synonyms

• serie (obsolete)

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• → Japanese: シリーズ (shirīzu)
• → Korean: 시리즈 (sirijeu)
• → Burmese: စီးရီး (ci:ri:)

Translations

References

Further reading

• “series”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “series”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “series”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• reises, ressie, seiser

Asturian

Noun

series

1. plural of serie

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [səˈɾi.əs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [seˈɾi.es]

Verb

series

1. second-person singular conditional of ser
2. second-person singular conditional of ésser

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

series

1. plural of serie

Interlingua

Noun

series

1. plural of serie

Latin

Etymology

From serō (“to bind”) +‎ -iēs.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ri.eːs/, [ˈs̠ɛrieːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ri.es/, [ˈsɛːries]

Noun

seriēs f (genitive seriēī); fifth declension

1. a row
2. a succession
3. a series
4. a chain

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• “series”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “series”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• series in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• series in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Verb

series

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of seriar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseɾjes/ [ˈse.ɾjes]
• Rhymes: -eɾjes
• Syllabification: se‧ries

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

series f pl

1. plural of serie

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

series

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of seriar

Swedish

Noun

series

1. indefinite genitive singular of serie

series c

1. Obsolete form of serie.