serra

Borrowed from Latin serra.

serra (plural serrae)

1. A saw, or saw-like part.

• Sarre, rares, rears

• sierra
• xerra

From Latin serra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsera/ [ˈse.ra]
• Rhymes: -era
• Syllabification: se‧rra

serra f (plural serres)

1. saw (tool)

• serrar

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsɛ.rə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsɛ.ra]
• Homophone: cerra

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Inherited from Old Catalan serra, from Latin serra.

serra f (plural serres)

1. saw (tool)
2. sierra, mountain range

• serrar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

serra

1. inflection of serrar (“to saw”):
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

serra

1. inflection of serrar (“to squeeze; to clench”):
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “serra”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
• “serra” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “serra”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “serra”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• sarra, serrale, sarrale

From Latin serra (“saw”), from Proto-Italic *serzā, from Proto-Indo-European *sers- (“to cut off”). Cognates include Portuguese serra and Spanish sierra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛrːa/
• Hyphenation: ser‧ra

serra f (plural serre)

1. (geography) sierra, mountain range

• “serra, serrale, sarra, sarrale” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

• IPA^(key): /sɛ.ʁa/ ~ /se.ʁa/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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serra

1. third-person singular past historic of serrer

• erras, rares, raser, Sarre

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛra/ [ˈs̺ɛ.rɐ]
• Rhymes: -ɛra
• Hyphenation: se‧rra

From Old Galician-Portuguese serra, from Latin serra. Cognate with Portuguese serra and Spanish sierra.

serra f (plural serras)

1. saw
2. (geography) sierra, mountain range

   Synonym: cordal

3. (geography) highland

• serradoiro
• serrar

From Latin sera.

serra f (plural serras)

1. bolt; bar for fastening doors

   Synonyms: ferrollo, tranca

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “serra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “serra”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “serra”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “serra”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “serra”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From serrare.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛr.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɛrra
• Hyphenation: sèr‧ra

serra f (plural serre)

1. greenhouse, glasshouse

• effetto serra

• → Turkish: sera

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

serra

1. inflection of serrare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• serra in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• serra in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• serra in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• serra in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

From Portuguese serra.

serra

1. wahoo, Acanthocybium solandri

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015), Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN

According to De Vaan, from Proto-Italic *serzā, from Proto-Indo-European *sers-eh₂, from *sers- (“to cut off”), from which he also notes Schrijver's derivation of sarrio from a zero-grade of such a root.^[1]

Compare, however, Proto-Celtic *serrā (“sickle, scythe; billhook”), with a different etymology.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛr.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsɛr.ra]

serra f (genitive serrae); first declension

1. a saw (tool)
2. a kind of sawfish
3. (military) a serrated battle order

First-declension noun.

• “serra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “serra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "serra", 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)
• “serra”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “serra”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “serra”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Borrowed from Sicilian serra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛr.ra/
• Rhymes: -ɛrra

serra f

1. red-breasted merganser (Mergus serrator)

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

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• Rhymes: -ɛʁɐ
• Homophone: cerra
• Hyphenation: ser‧ra

From Old Galician-Portuguese serra, from Latin serra.

serra f (plural serras)

1. saw (tool)
2. chain (of mountains)

• serrar
• serrote

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

serra

1. inflection of serrar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “serra”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “serra”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026
• “serra” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “serra”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “serra”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “serra”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From Latin serra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛʐ.ʐa/, [ˈsɛ.ʐːa], [ˈsɛ.ɾːa]
• Rhymes: -ɛʐʐa, -ɛɾɾa
• Hyphenation: sèr‧ra

serra f (plural serri)

1. saw
2. chain (of mountains)