E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Sera’pis.
The Ptolemaic form of the Egyptian Osi’ris. The word is a corruption of osor’apis (dead apis, or rather “osirified apis”), a deity which had so many things in common with Osi’ris that it is not at all easy to distinguish them.
