serenata

Borrowed from Italian serenata. Doublet of serenade.

serenata (plural serenatas)

1. (music) A type of baroque cantata performed outdoors, in the evening, with mixed vocal and instrumental forces
   • 2007 January 25, James R. Oestreich, “The Shepherd, the Sea Nymph and the Big Rock, Abridged”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     More’s the pity, for this work (technically a serenata) is a little gem, and Aulos polished it to a fine luster.

• Near East, arsenate, arsetane, asterane

Borrowed from English serenata, also from Italian serenata.

• IPA^(key): /seɾeˈnata/ [s̪e.ɾ̪eˈn̪a.t̪ɐ]
• Hyphenation: se‧re‧na‧ta

serenáta (Badlit spelling ᜐᜒᜇᜒᜈᜆ)

1. an open-air concert

• IPA^(key): /se.reˈna.ta/
• Rhymes: -ata
• Hyphenation: se‧re‧nà‧ta

From sereno (“clear, calm”), from Latin serenus (“calm”) or from the feminine past participle of serenare.

serenata f (plural serenate)

1. serenade

serenata f sg

1. feminine singular of serenato

• arenaste, estranea

Borrowed from Italian serenata, from the adjective sereno (“clear, calm”), from Latin serēnus (“calm”).

• Hyphenation: se‧re‧na‧ta

serenata f (plural serenatas)

1. serenade

   Synonym: seresta

• “serenata”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “serenata”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Italian serenata, from the adjective sereno (“clear, calm”), from Latin serēnus (“calm”).

• IPA^(key): /seɾeˈnata/ [se.ɾeˈna.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: se‧re‧na‧ta

serenata f (plural serenatas)

1. serenade

• “serenata”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Borrowed from Spanish serenata.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /seɾeˈnata/ [sɛ.ɾɛˈn̪aː.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: se‧re‧na‧ta

serenata (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜇᜒᜈᜆ)

1. serenade

   Synonym: harana

2. (music) concert

   Synonym: konsiyerto

• “serenata”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018