Feminine
serpe
Meaning
- (feminine) serpent, snake
- (feminine) wyvern
- (feminine, figuratively) an ugly person
Translations
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈsɛʁ.pi/
Etymology
In summary
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.
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