Translation
series, sequence, run
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Word origin
From Latin series, a row or a chain, from serere ('to join, to link'). The image is of things strung together one after another, which is exactly what a series still is.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- series
- English cognates
- series, serial, insert, assert
Examples
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He wrote a series of articles about the language.
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After a run of difficult days, good news came.
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We watched the new series on television.
A is things of the same kind following one after another: a run of articles, a run of bad days, a run of stamps, a television series. Vico is the near neighbour and the two are often confused, but a is a queue or a row you can point at, a physical line of things or people, while a is a set defined by kind and order rather than by where the members are standing.
The linking word is worth getting right. and are both heard; is the safer default, since is properly for measures and quantities, and a series is a set rather than an amount. The adjective is , and or post covers "in series" when you mean the arrangement rather than the collection.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 19, lesson 11: serio, ruliĝi, infekti and 7 more words.