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单词 serpere
释义

serpere

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin serpere (to creep, crawl), from Proto-Italic *serpō, from Proto-Indo-European *sérp-e-ti ~ *sérp-onti, thematic root present of *serp- (to creep, crawl). Cognate with Greek έρπω (érpo, to crawl, creep).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɛr.pe.re/
  • Rhymes: -ɛrpere
  • Hyphenation: sèr‧pe‧re

Verb

sèrpere (first-person singular present sèrpo, no past historic, no past participle)

  1. (literary, intransitive, chiefly figurative) to snake (to follow or move in a winding route)
    Synonym: serpeggiare
    • 1840, Alessandro Manzoni, “Capitolo XXXI [Chapter 31]”, in I promessi sposi, Tip. Guglielmini e Redaelli, page 591:
      andò covando e serpendo lentamente, tutto il restante dell’anno, e ne’ primi mesi del susseguente 1630.
      [the contagion] went on lurking and creeping for the rest of the year, and the first months of the following 1630

Usage notes

  • The verb lacks the past participle form and the compound tenses.

Conjugation

  • serpe
  • serpente

Further reading

  • serpere in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Verb

serpere

  1. present active infinitive of serpō
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