serene

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 288 words | Copyright

serene (of weather, etc.) clear and calm; honorific epithet of a prince XVI; (of persons) calm, untroubled XVII. In both the early senses first in Sc. — L. serēnus clear, fair, calm (whence It. sereno).
So serenity XV (first in Sc. as a title of honour). — (O)F. or L.

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