Serum

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late 17th century: from Latin, literally ‘whey’.


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From Latin serum(“whey”). Cognates include French sérum, Spanish suero, Italian siere, siero, Portuguese soro. Doublet of suero.


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serum (n.)

1670s, "watery animal fluid," from Latin serum "watery fluid, whey," from PIE verbal stem *ser- "to run, flow" (source also of Greek oros "whey;" Sanskrit sarah "flowing, liquid," sarit "brook, river"). First applied 1893 to blood serum used in medical treatments.