serpent

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A snake, especially a large or dangerous one.
2. A subtle, treacherous, malicious person.
3. An obsolete wind instrument in the brass family, whose shape is suggestive of a snake (Wikipedia article).
4. A kind of firework with a serpentine motion.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To wind or meander
2. (obsolete) To encircle.

Conceptos

serpiente

culebra

sierpe

serpentes

serpentón

dragoncillo

estragón

Serpiente

majá

anaconda

boa

serpiente grande

víbora

sierpe culebra

ofidio

serpientes

Con guión como

ser‧pent

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈsɜːpənt/

Etimología (Inglés)

From Middle English serpent, from Old French serpent (“snake, serpent”), from Latin serpēns (“snake”), present active participle of serpere (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-Italic *serpō, from Proto-Indo-European *serp-. In this sense, displaced native Old English nǣdre (“snake, serpent”), whence Modern English adder.
Compare Sanskrit सर्प (sarpa, “snake”), which is a descendant of the same Proto-Indo-European word as English serpent.