serpe

Etymology

From Old French serpe, from Vulgar Latin *sarpa, from Latin sarpō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛʁp/

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• Rhymes: -ɛʁp

Noun

serpe f (plural serpes)

1. sickle

Further reading

• “serpe” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• pères, Perse, peser

Etymology

From Old Portuguese serpe, from Vulgar Latin serpes, from Latin serpēns.

Noun

serpe f (plural serpes)

1. serpent, snake

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin serpes, from Latin serpēns, from serpō (“crawl, creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *serp-.

Noun

serpe f (plural serpi)

1. snake
2. viper (figurative)

Anagrams

• perse, prese

Verb

serpe

1. second-person singular present active imperative of serpō

References

• serpe in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese serpe, from Vulgar Latin serpes, from Latin serpēns, from serpō (“crawl, creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *serp-.

Cognate with Galician serpe, Spanish sierpe, Catalan serp, Occitan sèrp, Italian serpe and Romanian șarpe.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛɾ.pɨ/
• Hyphenation: ser‧pe

Noun

serpe f (plural serpes)

1. serpent, snake
2. (heraldry, mythology) wyvern
3. (figuratively) an ugly person