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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French serpent (“snake, serpent”), from Latin serp?ns (“snake”), from the verb serp? (“I creep, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *serp-.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s??p?nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?p?nt/
• Hyphenation: ser?pent

Noun

serpent (plural serpents)

1. A snake.
2. (music) An obsolete wind instrument in the brass family, whose shape is suggestive of a snake (Wikipedia article).
3. (figuratively) A subtle, treacherous, malicious person.
4. A kind of firework with a serpentine motion.

Derived terms

• serpentarium
• serpenticide

Related terms

• serpentine
• Old Serpent
• serpentist

Translations

Verb

serpent (third-person singular simple present serpents, present participle serpenting, simple past and past participle serpented)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To wind or meander
2. (obsolete, transitive) To encircle.

See also

• herpetology
• lizard
• reptile
• snake

Anagrams

• penster, present, repents, respent

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin serp?ns, serpentem, from serp? (“crawl, creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *serp-.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /s???pent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /s?r?pen/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /se??pent/

Noun

serpent m or f (plural serpents)

1. snake

Synonyms

• serp

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch serpent, from Old French serpent (“snake, serpent”), from Latin serp?ns (“snake”), from the verb serp? (“I creep, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *serp-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?r?p?nt/
• Hyphenation: ser?pent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

serpent n or f or m (plural serpenten, diminutive serpentje n)

1. (formal, dated) snake

   Synonym: slang

2. (formal) serpent, serpentine dragon, large snake

   Synonym: slang

3. an unpleasant, spiteful or foulmouthed person, especially used of women

   Synonym: slang

Noun

serpent f (plural serpenten, diminutive serpentje n)

1. (music) serpent (wind instrument)

Descendants

• ? West Frisian: serpint

Anagrams

• persten, strepen

French

Etymology

From Middle French serpent, from Old French serpent, from Latin serpentem, accusative form of serp?ns, from serp? (“crawl, creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *serp-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??.p??/

Noun

serpent m (plural serpents)

1. snake

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• présent

Latin

Verb

serpent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of serp?

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French serpent, from Latin serpentem, accusative singular form of serp?ns.

Noun

serpent m (plural serpenz)

1. snake

Descendants

• French: serpent

Old French

Etymology

From Latin serp?ns, serpentem.

Noun

serpent m (oblique plural serpenz or serpentz, nominative singular serpenz or serpentz, nominative plural serpent)

1. snake

Descendants

• Middle French: serpent
  • French: serpent
• Walloon: sierpint
• ? English: serpent
• ? Dutch: serpent

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Vallader) serpaint

Etymology

From Latin serp?ns, serpentem.

Noun

serpent m (plural serpents)

1. (Surmiran) snake

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) serp
• (Sursilvan) siarp
• (Sutsilvan) zearp
• (Surmiran) zerp