serpe

Inherited from Old French serpe, from Vulgar Latin *sarpa, from Latin sarpō.

• IPA^(key): /sɛʁp/

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• Rhymes: -ɛʁp

serpe f (plural serpes)

1. billhook, pruning hook, sickle (agricultural implement often with a curved or hooked end to the blade used for pruning or cutting thick, woody plants)

• à la serpe

• faux

• “serpe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• pères, Perse, peser

Attested since circa 1300. From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin serpes, from Latin serpēns. Cognate with Portuguese serpe, Spanish sierpe.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛɾpe̝/

serpe f (plural serpes)

1. serpent, snake

   Synonyms: bicha, cobra, cóbrega

   • 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 111:

     O cõde Fernã Gonçaluez andaua ontre [os] mouros, ferĩdo et matando assy com̃o [se] fosse serpe rauyosa

     Count Fernán González was among the Moors, wounding and killing them as if he was a rabid serpent

2. (folklore) dragon

• Cova da Serpe
• Cova de Xerpe
• Gerpe
• Serpe
• Serpes
• serpe de cascabel
• Xerpe

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “serpe”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “serpe”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “xerpe”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “serpe”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “serpe”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From Vulgar Latin serpes, from Latin serpēns, from serpō (“crawl, creep”), from Proto-Indo-European *serp-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛr.pe/
• Rhymes: -ɛrpe
• Hyphenation: sèr‧pe

serpe f (plural serpi)

1. snake
2. viper (figurative)

• serpente
• serpeggiare

• perse, prese

serpe

1. second-person singular present active imperative of serpō

• serpe in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

serpe oblique singular, f (oblique plural serpes, nominative singular serpe, nominative plural serpes)

1. serpent, snake

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.

• Hyphenation: ser‧pe

serpe f (plural serpes)

1. serpent, snake

   Synonyms: cobra, serpente

2. (heraldry, mythology) wyvern
3. (figuratively) an ugly person

• Serpa