serpent

English

Etymology

From Latin Latin serpens (“snake”), from the verb serpo (“to creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *serp-.

Pronunciation

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Noun

serpent (plural serpents)

A snake.
(music) An obsolete wind instrument in the brass family, whose shape is suggestive of a snake (Wikipedia article).

Related terms

serpentine

Translations

snake

Armenian: օձ (hy) (òj)
Azeri: ilan (az)
Breton: naer f -ed pl, sarpant m -ed pl
Catalan: serpent f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 蛇 (cmn) (shé)
Czech: had (cs) m
Danish: slange (da) c
Dutch: serpent (nl) n, slang (nl) f
Esperanto: serpento (eo)
Finnish: käärme (fi)
French: serpent (fr) m
German: Schlange (de) f
Greek:
Ancient: ἑρπετόν (herpetón) n

Modern: ερπετό (erpetó) n, φίδι (fíthi) n
Hebrew: נחש (he) m
Hungarian: kígyó (hu)
Icelandic: höggormur (is) m, naðra (is) f

Indonesian: ular (id)
Italian: serpente (it) m
Japanese: 蛇 (へび, hebi)
Korean: 뱀 (baem)
Latin: serpens (la)
Macedonian: змија f
Nahuatl: coatl
Polish: wąż (pl) m
Portuguese: serpente (pt) f
Romanian: șarpe (ro) m
Russian: змея (ru) (zmeya)
Sanskrit: सर्प (sa)
Serbo-Croatian: zmija f, guja f
Spanish: serpiente f, sierpe f (archaic)
Swahili: joka (sw)
Swedish: orm (sv) c
Volapük: (male or female) snek (vo), (male) hisnek (vo), (female) jisnek (vo), (offspring, young) snekül (vo)

musical instrument

Chinese:
Mandarin: 蛇号 (cmn) (shé hào)
Finnish: sinkki (fi)
Japanese: セルパン (ja) (serupan)

Portuguese: serpentão (pt) m
Spanish: serpentón (es) m
Volapük: särpentum (vo)

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Catalan: serp f
German: Wurm m (poetic)

Norwegian: slange
Slovak: had m
Telugu: పాము (paamu)

Verb

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