serafim
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /se.ɾaˈfĩ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /sɨ.ɾɐˈfĩ/
- Rhymes: -ĩ
- Homophone: Serafim
- Hyphenation: se‧ra‧fim
Noun
serafim m (plural serafins)
Related terms
Further reading
- “serafim”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “serafim”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic серафимъ (serafimŭ), from Koine Greek σεραφείμ (serapheím), from Biblical Hebrew שְׂרָפִים (śərāp̄îm), the plural form of שָׂרָף (śārāp̄, “burning one”).
Noun
serafim m (plural serafimi)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | serafim | serafimul | serafimi | serafimii | |
| genitive-dative | serafim | serafimului | serafimi | serafimilor | |
| vocative | serafimule | serafimilor | |||