sericus

From Sēricus and Ancient Greek σηρικός (sērikós, “silken”), from σήρ (sḗr, “silkworm”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”), possibly ultimately from the Old Chinese word for silk. Equivalent to Seres +‎ -icus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈseː.rɪ.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛː.ri.kus]

sēricus (feminine sērica, neuter sēricum); first/second-declension adjective

1. silken, made of silk
2. silky, silklike
3. (historical) alternative letter-case form of Sēricus, of or related to the Seres or (New Latin) the Chinese

First/second-declension adjective.

• Asturian: silgu^?
• ⇒ Asturian: sergón, xergón
• Old French: sarge
  • Middle French: sarge
    • French: serge, sarge (obsolete)
      • → English: serge
• Old Galician-Portuguese: sirgo, silgo
  • Galician: sirgo
  • Portuguese: sirgo
• Spanish: sirgo
• → Irish: seiric
• → Proto-West Germanic: *seluk, *seruk (see there for further descendants)
• → English: seric (learned)
• → Italian: serico (learned)
• → Portuguese: sérico (learned)
• → Spanish: sérico (learned)

• “sericus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "sericus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)