serpe

See also: Serpe and sèrpe

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French serpe, from Vulgar Latin *sarpa, from Latin sarpō. Compare Medieval Latin sarpa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛʁp/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛʁp

Noun

serpe f (plural serpes)

1. billhook, pruning hook, sickle (agricultural implement often with a curved or hooked end to the blade used for pruning or cutting thick, woody plants)

Derived terms

• à la serpe

Related terms

• faux

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• pères, Perse, peser

Galician

Christianized serpe or bicha of Gondomil, a winged serpent sculpture of unknown chronology, Gondomil, Galicia

Etymology

Attested since circa 1300. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin serpes, from Latin serpēns. Cognate with Portuguese serpe, Spanish sierpe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛɾpe̝/

Noun

serpe f (plural serpes)

1. serpent, snake

   Synonyms: bicha, cobra, cóbrega

   • 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 111:

     O cõde Fernã Gonçaluez andaua ontre [os] mouros, ferĩdo et matando assy com̃o [se] fosse serpe rauyosa

     Count Fernán González was among the Moors, wounding and killing them as if he was a rabid serpent

2. (folklore) dragon

Derived terms

• Cova da Serpe
• Cova de Xerpe
• Gerpe
• Serpe
• Serpes
• serpe de cascabel
• Xerpe

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “serpe”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “serpe”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “xerpe”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “serpe”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “serpe”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛr.pe/
• Rhymes: -ɛrpe
• Hyphenation: sèr‧pe

Noun

serpe f (plural serpi)

1. snake
2. viper (figurative)

Related terms

• serpente
• serpeggiare

Anagrams

• perse, prese

Latin

Verb

serpe

1. second-person singular present active imperative of serpō

References

• serpe 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)

Old French

Noun

serpe oblique singular, f (oblique plural serpes, nominative singular serpe, nominative plural serpes)

1. serpent, snake

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese serpe, from Vulgar Latin serpes, from Latin serpēns, from serpō (“crawl, creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *serp-.

Cognate with Galician serpe, Spanish sierpe, Catalan serp, Occitan sèrp, Italian serpe and Romanian șarpe.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛʁ.pi/ [ˈsɛh.pi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛʁ.pi/ [ˈsɛh.pi]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛɾ.pi/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛʁ.pi/ [ˈsɛχ.pi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛɻ.pe/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛɾ.pɨ/

• Hyphenation: ser‧pe

Noun

serpe f (plural serpes)

1. serpent, snake

   Synonyms: cobra, serpente

2. (heraldry, mythology) wyvern
3. (figuratively) an ugly person

Derived terms

• Serpa