serif

Etymology
From earlier, , of obscure derivation. There are two (not directly interrelated) candidates for a possible origin: 1.) the noun  (“stroke”, now also “serif” as a semantic loan), related with ; and 2.) the verb, from 🇨🇬. For the latter, compare 🇨🇬, although this again may be a semantic loan based on the English word rather than original to it. Alternatively, from Late Latin, from Latin , after the ruled lines used in writing on wax tablets.

Noun

 * 1)  A short line added to the end of a stroke in traditional typefaces, such as.

Derived terms

 * sans serif
 * slab serif

Translations

 * Arabic: مذيل, سيرف
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, patka
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: betűtalp
 * Irish: seiríf, trasnán, trasmhír
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: セリフ
 * Korean: 세리프
 * Lithuanian: užkardėlė
 * Macedonian: се́риф
 * Norwegian: serif
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swedish:

Adjective

 * 1)  Of a typeface, provided with serifs.

Translations

 * Czech: patkový
 * Finnish: päätteellinen
 * Hungarian: