sargento

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French sergent, from Middle French sergent, from Old French serjant, from Medieval Latin servientem (“a servant, a vassal, a soldier or an apparitor”). Doublet of servente.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /saʁˈʒẽ.tu/ [saɦˈʒẽ.tu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /saʁˈʒẽ.tu/ [saɦˈʒẽ.tu]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /saɾˈʒẽ.tu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /saʁˈʒẽ.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /saɻˈʒẽ.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɐɾˈʒẽ.tu/

• Hyphenation: sar‧gen‧to

Noun

sargento m or f by sense (plural sargentos, feminine sargento or (less common) sargenta, feminine plural sargentos or (less common) sargentas)

1. (military) sergeant (rank above that of a corporal)
2. (law enforcement) sergeant (rank in some police forces)
3. (informal, humorous) captain (someone who bosses others around)

Derived terms

• sargentada
• sargentice
• sargento de mar e guerra
• sargento-ajudante
• sargento-mor

 

Descendants

• Kadiwéu: jajeentegi

Spanish

Clamps

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish sargente, from Middle French sergent, from Old French sergeant, sergent, serjant, sergient, sergant (“sergeant, servant”), from Medieval Latin servientem (“servant, vassal, soldier, apparitor”), from Latin serviēns (“serving”), present participle of serviō (“to serve or to be a slave to”), from servus (“a slave, a serf or a servant”), perhaps from Etruscan; compare Etruscan proper names 𐌔𐌄𐌓𐌅𐌉 (servi) or 𐌔𐌄𐌓𐌅𐌄 (serve); or from Proto-Italic *serwo, from Proto-Indo-European *serwoh₂. Doublet of sirviente.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saɾˈxento/ [saɾˈxẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: sar‧gen‧to

Noun

sargento m or f by sense (plural sargentos, feminine sargento or sargenta, feminine plural sargentos or sargentas)

1. sergeant
   • 2023 January 13, Laura Fernández, “‘Happy Valley’: Pelear, brillantemente, hasta el final”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Siete años después, llega la tercera y última temporada de la serie que protagoniza Sarah Lancashire en el papel de su vida, el de una durísima y astuta sargento que patrulla una campiña inglesa nada apacible[.]

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Noun

sargento m (plural sargentos)

1. clamp

   Synonym: mordaza

Related terms

• sargentear
• sargento mayor
• tordo sargento

 

Further reading

• “sargento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014