seraphin
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]seraphin (plural seraphins)
- Alternative form of xeraphim
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Koine Greek σεραφίν (seraphín).
Noun
[edit]seraphīn m (indeclinable)
- Alternative spelling of seraphīm
Old Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Late Latin seraphīm, from Biblical Hebrew שְׂרָפִים (śərāp̄îm, “seraphs, seraphim”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]seraphin m (plural seraphin or seraphines)
- seraph
- c1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 55v. col. 2.
- ſeraphĩ eſtaua diuſo del. e auiue .vi. alas caſcuno las dos crubiẽ ſus fazes elas dues crubrien sos piedes e cõ las dues uolaua
- Seraphim stood above Him. They had six wings each. With two they covered their faces and with two their feet and with two they flew.
- Idem, f. 56r. col. 1.
- Euelo ami uno de los ſeraphin en ſue mano braſa q̃ con las tenazas p̃ſo del altar etannio ſobre mi boca
- Then one of the seraphim flew to me; in his hand a live coal he had taken from the altar with tongs, and he touched it on my mouth
- c1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 55v. col. 2.
Descendants
[edit]- Spanish: serafín
See also
[edit]- cherubin (“cherub”)
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