serp
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Old Catalan serp, from Latin serpēns, derived from serpō (“crawl, creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *serp-.
Pronunciation
Derived terms
- serp corall
- serp de cascavell
- serp de vidre
- serp fuet
- serp gat
- serp llop
- serp marina
- serp tigre
- serp verda
- serp verda i groga
- serpejar
- serpeta
References
- “serp” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “serp” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Lower Sorbian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *sьrpъ, from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥p-. Cognate with Upper Sorbian serp, Polish sierp, Czech srp, Serbo-Croatian sȓp, Russian серп (serp).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛrp/
Declension
Further reading
- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “serp”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999) “serp”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
Maltese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛrp/
- Rhymes: -ɛrp
Noun
serp m (plural sriep, feminine serpa, diminutive srejjep)
- snake
- Kleopatra qatlet ruħha b’idejha b’gidma ta’ serp velenuż.
- Cleopatra single-handedly killed herself with the bite of a poisonous snake.
See also
Romansch
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *serpes, from Latin serpēns.
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