serpens

Borrowed from Latin serpēns, present active participle of serpō (“crawl, creep”).

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serpens (neuter plural serpentia)

1. (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)

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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).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈser.pens/, [ˈs̠ɛrpẽːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈser.pens/, [ˈsɛrpens]

serpēns m or f (genitive serpentis); third declension

1. A serpent, snake
2. (astronomy) either Draco or Serpens
3. A louse
4. Any creeping animal

Third-declension noun.

• (serpent, snake): anguis, colubra
• (constellation Draco): Anguis, Draco
• (louse): pedīculus

serpēns (genitive serpentis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. creeping, crawling

Third-declension participle.

¹When used purely as an adjective.

• “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.