serpente

See also: serpenté

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛʁ.pɑ̃t/

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Noun

serpente f (plural serpentes)

1. female equivalent of serpent: female snake

   De sales petites mouches. De sales petites serpentes. ― .

Verb

serpente

1. inflection of serpenter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “serpente”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• espèrent, pénètres, pénétrés, pesèrent, présente, présenté, repentes

Interlingua

Noun

serpente (plural serpentes)

1. snake, serpent

Synonyms

• angue

Related terms

• serpentaria (botanical)
• serpentin
• serpentiforme

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /serˈpɛn.te/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnte
• Hyphenation: ser‧pèn‧te

Noun

serpente m (plural serpenti)

1. snake

   Synonyms: (literary) angue, (literary) aspide, (rare) basilisco, biscia, cerasta, colubro, drago, dragone, idra, ofide, scitale, serpe

Derived terms

• serpentifero
• serpentello
• serpentone

Related terms

• serpeggiare
• serpentaria
• serpentario
• serpentiforme
• serpentino

Further reading

• serpente in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• presente

Latin

Noun

serpente

1. ablative singular of serpēns

Lombard

Etymology

From Latin serpēns.

Noun

serpente m

1. snake

Descendants

• Lombard: serpent

Portuguese

serpente (Opheodrys aestivus)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese serpente, from Latin serpentem (“serpent”), present active participle of serpō (“crawl, creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *serp-.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /seʁˈpẽ.t͡ʃi/ [sehˈpẽ.t͡ʃi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /seʁˈpẽ.t͡ʃi/ [sehˈpẽ.t͡ʃi]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /seɾˈpẽ.t͡ʃi/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /seʁˈpẽ.t͡ʃi/ [seχˈpẽ.t͡ʃi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /seɻˈpẽ.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨɾˈpẽ.tɨ/

• Hyphenation: ser‧pen‧te

Noun

serpente f (plural serpentes)

1. serpent

   Synonyms: cobra, ofídio

Related terms

• serpentário, serpenteante, serpentear, serpentífero, serpentina, serpentino, serpiginoso, serpentiforme