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Is serum a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word serum is a Scrabble US word. The word serum is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Is serum a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word serum is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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5-letter words (4 found)

MURES,MUSER,RUMES,SERUM,

4-letter words (15 found)

EMUS,MEUS,MURE,MUSE,REMS,RUES,RUME,RUMS,RUSE,SMUR,SUER,SURE,UMES,URES,USER,

3-letter words (19 found)

EMS,EMU,ERM,ERS,MES,MEU,MUS,REM,RES,RUE,RUM,SER,SUE,SUM,SUR,UME,UMS,URE,USE,

2-letter words (9 found)

EM,ER,ES,ME,MU,RE,UM,UR,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 48 words from serum according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of serum

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Definitions and meaning of serum

serum

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsɪəɹəm/, /ˈsiːɹəm/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈsɪɹəm/
  • (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈsiɹəm/
  • Rhymes: (UK) -ɪəɹəm, (US) -ɪɹəm

Noun

serum (countable and uncountable, plural serums or sera)

  1. The clear yellowish liquid obtained upon separating whole blood into its solid and liquid components after it has been allowed to clot.
    Synonym: blood serum
  2. Blood serum from the tissues of immunized animals, containing antibodies and used to transfer immunity to another individual.
  3. A watery liquid from animal tissue, especially one that moistens the surface of serous membranes or that is exuded by such membranes when they become inflamed, such as in edema or a blister.
  4. The watery portion of certain animal fluids like blood, milk, etc; whey.
  5. (skincare) An intensive moisturising product to be applied after cleansing but before a general moisturiser.

Synonyms

  • (medicine prepared from animal fluids): antiserum

Hyponyms

  • See antivenom and antidote (some serums)

Derived terms

Related terms

  • sero-

Translations

Further reading

  • “serum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “serum”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “serum”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • Esrum, Mureș, Muser, Remus, Sumer, merus, mures, murse, muser, resum, semur

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin serum. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈseː.rʏm/, [ˈsɪː.rʏm]
  • Hyphenation: se‧rum

Noun

serum n (plural sera or serums)

  1. blood serum

Derived terms

  • antiserum
  • bloedserum

Latin

Alternative forms

  • serū

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *serom, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to flow, run”); see also Sanskrit सर (sara, “flowing”), Sanskrit सार (sā́ra, “curd, cream”), Sanskrit सारण (sāraṇa, “flowing, buttermilk”), and Ancient Greek ὁρός (horós, “whey, curd, semen”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈse.rum/, [ˈs̠ɛrʊ̃ˑ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈse.rum/, [ˈsɛːrum]

Noun

serum n (genitive serī); second declension

  1. whey
  2. (by extension) some other watery liquid
Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

Etymology 2

Adjective

sērum

  1. nominative neuter singular of sērus

References

  • “serum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “serum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • serum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • serum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old Norse

Verb

serum

  1. first-person plural past indicative active of sá

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin serum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛ.rum/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrum
  • Syllabification: se‧rum

Noun

serum n (indeclinable)

  1. (rare) serum (yellowish fluid obtained from blood)
    Synonym: surowica
  2. (cosmetics) serum (skincare product)

Further reading

  • serum in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • serum in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin serum (“whey”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sěːrum/
  • Hyphenation: se‧rum

Noun

sérum m (Cyrillic spelling се́рум)

  1. serum

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /seˈɾum/ [seˈɾũm]
  • Rhymes: -um
  • Syllabification: se‧rum

Noun

serum m (plural serums)

  1. serum

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