serpens
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serpēns (serpent)
See also: Serpens
German
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin serpēns, present active participle of serpō (“crawl, creep”).
Pronunciation
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Adjective
serpens (neuter plural serpentia)
- (medicine, with Latin or Latin-like substantives) serpentlike
- Ulcus serpens (rarely Ulkus serpens), Ulcera serpentia ― serpent ulcer (also ulcus serpens), serpent ulcers
- Erysipelas serpens ― (rarely erysipelas serpens)
References
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *serpents. Present active participle of serpō (“crawl, creep”). Cognate with Sanskrit सर्प (sarpá, “snake, serpent”), Ancient Greek ἑρπετόν (herpetón, “serpent, creeping animal”), Albanian gjarpër (“snake”) (Proto-Albanian *serpena).
Pronunciation
Noun
serpēns m or f (genitive serpentis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | serpēns | serpentēs |
| Genitive | serpentis | serpentium serpentum |
| Dative | serpentī | serpentibus |
| Accusative | serpentem | serpentēs |
| Ablative | serpente | serpentibus |
| Vocative | serpēns | serpentēs |
Synonyms
Related terms
Descendants
- Aromanian: sharpi, sharpe
- Catalan: serp, serpent
- Dalmatian: serpiant
- → Esperanto: serpento
- Friulian: sarpint
- Galician: serpe, serpente
- Interlingua: serpente
- Italian: serpe, serpente
- Megleno-Romanian: șarpi
- Occitan: sèrp
- Old French: serpent
- Portuguese: serpente
- Romanian: șarpe, șerpânță
- Romansch: serp, siarp, serpent, serpaint
- Sicilian: serpi, sirpenti
- → Maltese: serp
- Spanish: sierpe, serpiente
- → Welsh: sarff
Participle
serpēns (genitive serpentis); third-declension one-termination participle
Declension
Third-declension participle.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | serpēns | serpentēs | serpentia | ||
| Genitive | serpentis | serpentium | |||
| Dative | serpentī | serpentibus | |||
| Accusative | serpentem | serpēns | serpentēs serpentīs |
serpentia | |
| Ablative | serpente serpentī1 |
serpentibus | |||
| Vocative | serpēns | serpentēs | serpentia | ||
1When used purely as an adjective.
References
- “serpens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “serpens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- serpens in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- serpens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.