serpe

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See also: Serpe and sèrpe

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French serpe, from Vulgar Latin *sarpa, from Latin sarpō. Compare Medieval Latin sarpa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɛʁp/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛʁp

Noun

serpe f (plural serpes)

  1. billhook, pruning hook, sickle (agricultural implement often with a curved or hooked end to the blade used for pruning or cutting thick, woody plants)

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Galician

Christianized serpe or bicha of Gondomil, a winged serpent sculpture of unknown chronology, Gondomil, Galicia

Etymology

Attested since circa 1300. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin serpes, from Latin serpēns. Cognate with Portuguese serpe, Spanish sierpe.

Pronunciation

Noun

serpe f (plural serpes)

  1. serpent, snake
    Synonyms: bicha, cobra, cóbrega
    • 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 111:
      O cõde Fernã Gonçaluez andaua ontre mouros, ferĩdo et matando assy com̃o fosse serpe rauyosa
      Count Fernán González was among the Moors, wounding and killing them as if he was a rabid serpent
  2. (folklore) dragon

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Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

serpe f (plural serpi) or
serpe (literary or regional) m (plural serpi)

  1. snake
  2. viper (figurative)

References

  1. ^ serpe in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
  2. 2.0 2.1 serpe in Bruno Migliorini et al., Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia, Rai Eri, 2025

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Latin

Verb

serpe

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of serpō

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Old French

Noun

serpe oblique singularf (oblique plural serpes, nominative singular serpe, nominative plural serpes)

  1. serpent, snake

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-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

 

  • Hyphenation: ser‧pe

Noun

serpe f (plural serpes)

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

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