serie Italian · revision 38247

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1562–1563, Giovan Battista Gelli|origins=la serō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /ˈsɛ.rje/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''serie''' ''f'' (invariable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la|seriēs|t=row, chain, succession]], a learned word, from [[m|la|serō|t=to join, to link in a row]] with the suffix [[m|la|-iēs]].^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(GRADIT 2003)^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) DELI calls the Latin verb of Indo-European origin, and Devoto sets it beside related words in Celtic and Greek and beside [[sermone]], from a root ⟨ser-⟩.^(DELI 1999)^(Devoto 1968) The same learned word is [[fr|série]], recorded from 1715, [[es|serie]] and [[pt|série]].^(Nocentini 2010)^(Körting 1907)^(DEI|3460)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ DELI's first record is Giovan Battista Gelli, 1562–1563, who uses the word for the rhythm of a sentence.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003) DEI dates it to the 17th century, to Francesco Lana, with the senses “order, continuous arrangement”.^(DEI|3460)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ From the 17th century the word named an ordered succession of things or people, such as ''la continuata serie di tredici imperatori ottomani'', “the unbroken series of thirteen Ottoman emperors”.^(GDLI|18, 725) Lana already used it for series of numbers in mathematics, and Segneri for a line of descent, a sense now lost.^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)^(DEI|3460)

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+ Later senses came with the sciences and with new technology: a group of related organic compounds (1873), a set of stamps of one issue (1940) and a division of athletes or teams by level (1960), as in ''serie A''.^(DELI 1999) ''In serie'' describes mass production and electrical components connected one after another, and ''di serie'' standard equipment.^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Treccani 2011) The adjective ''seriale'' appears in Benedetto Croce before 1952, and, from 1960 it also names serial music;^(DELI 1999) DELI compares English ''serial''.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1562–1563 – Giovan Battista Gelli uses the word for the rhythm of a sentence.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 17th century – Francesco Lana uses it in mathematics.^(DEI|3460)^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)

+ * 1873 – Chemical sense, a group of related organic compounds.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1940 – A set of stamps of the same issue.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1960 – A division of athletes or teams, ''seriale'' is used of music.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|series]], an ordered succession of related things, people or events: ''una serie di furti nel quartiere''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A range or set to choose from: ''una serie di proposte''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(sports)'' Each of the [[divisione|alt=divisions]] in which athletes and teams compete by level: ''La squadra è salita in serie B.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Wiktionary) ''Di serie B'' also means second-rate.^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

+ # A television or radio series, a [[m|en|serial]]; also a run of articles or programmes on one subject: ''Ho finito la terza stagione della serie.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

+ # The numbered issues of a periodical, ''nuova serie'', a fresh run after a break.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

+ # A set of stamps of one issue; a group of banknotes, lottery tickets or cheques sharing one mark: ''numero di serie''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ # ''(mathematics)'' The sum of the infinitely many terms of a sequence.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(typography)'' A set of type of the same slope, weight or width.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # ''(industry)'' Production of a large number of copies of one model: ''produzione in serie''.^(Treccani 2011)^(Zingarelli 2010)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[seriale]]

+ * [[serialità]]

+ * [[serializzare]]

+ * [[seriare]]

+ * [[seriazione]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[serto]]

+ * [[sermone]]

+ * [[la|series]]

+ * [[fr|série]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Serie'' is invariable: ''la serie'', ''le serie''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Wiktionary) ''Di serie'' means standard, included in the price, and ''fuori serie'' made apart from the regular production, hence exceptional.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Treccani 2011) In jokes ''della serie'' or ''per la serie'' introduces a typical case: “of the kind…”.^(Zingarelli 2010)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}