serpe

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 le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• pères, Perse, peser

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛɾpe̝/

serpe f (plural serpes)

1. serpent, snake
   • 1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), 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

   Synonyms: bicha, cobra, cóbrega

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

• “serpe” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “serpe” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “xerpe” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “serpe” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “serpe” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

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

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, 1883–1887)

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

1. serpent, snake

From Old 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.

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛɾ.pɨ/
• Hyphenation: ser‧pe

serpe f (plural serpes)

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

• cobra
• serpente

• Serpa