English
serena
Serena comes from Italian sereno ‘serene, calm’, and goes back to Latin serēnus.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEserēnus‘calm’
- Italianc. 1300–presentserenoas serena‘serene, calm’
- Englishearliest quotation 1589-1600serena
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEserēnus‘calm’
- Italianc. 1300–presentserenoas serena‘serene, calm’
- Englishearliest quotation 1589-1600serena
Earliest quotation: 1589-1600, Robert Dudley, The Principal Navigations: “But not desirous to make any longer aboad in…”
Every English word from Latin serēnus
Today it means
noun —
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin serēnus / serena