serna

See also: Serna and серна

Spanish

Etymology

Vulgar Latin *senara, of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *senara (“piece of land cultivated on the side”), from *sen- (“separation”) (<< Proto-Indo-European *swé (“self”)) + *aryeti (“to plow”).

Noun

serna f (plural sernas)

tilled land to be seeded

Further reading

“serna”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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