serpente
See also: serpenté
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛʁ.pɑ̃t/
Audio (file)
Noun
serpente f (plural serpentes)
- female equivalent of serpent: female snake
- De sales petites mouches. De sales petites serpentes. ― .
Verb
serpente
- inflection of serpenter:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 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)
- 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/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛnte
- Hyphenation: ser‧pèn‧te
Noun
serpente m (plural serpenti)
- snake
- Synonyms: (literary) angue, (literary) colubro, (rare) ofide, 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
- ablative singular of serpēns
Portuguese
serpente (Opheodrys aestivus)
Etymology
From Old 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]
- (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.t(ɨ)/
- Hyphenation: ser‧pen‧te
Noun
serpente f (plural serpentes)
- serpent
- Synonyms: cobra, ofídio
Related terms
- serpentário, serpenteante, serpentear, serpentífero, serpentina, serpentino, serpiginoso, serpentiforme