I.a bar for fastening doors (not fixed to the door, but put on and taken off): sera, μοχλὸς θύρας, Gloss. (mostly poet.; not in Cic.; cf.: “claustrum, obex): quā (serā) remotā fores panduntur,” Varr. L. L. 7, § 108 Müll.: “jam contigerat portam, Saturnia cujus Dempserat oppositas insidiosa seras,” Ov. F. 1, 266: “sera suā sponte delapsa cecidit, remissaeque subito fores admiserunt intrantem,” Petr. 16, 2: “seris transversis ita clathrare (vacerras), ne, etc.,” Col. 9, 1, 4.—Sing., Plaut. Pers. 4, 4, 23: “clauditur et durā janua fulta serā,” Tib. 1, 2, 6; 1, 8, 76: “obducere seram,” Prop. 4 (5), 5, 48. “ponere seram,” Ov. A. A. 2, 636; id. M. 14, 710: “demere seram,” id. F. 1, 280: “excutere poste seram,” id. Am. 1, 6, 24: “carmine vincitur sera,” id. ib. 2, 1, 28; Juv. 6, 347.— Plur., Ov. M. 8, 630; Sen. Ep. 90, 8; Petr. 16, 2.
sĕra , ae, f. 2. sero,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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