serpiente
Meaning
- (feminine) snake, serpent (legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes)
- (feminine,specifically) a large or medium-sized snake
- (feminine,figuratively) snake
Frequency
Hyphenated as
ser‧pien‧te
Gender
♀️ Feminine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/seɾˈpjente/
Etymology
Inherited from Latin serpentem, derived from serpere (“slither, creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *serp-. Doublet of sierpe. Cognate with English serpent.
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