serpent

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈsɜːpənt/    美 /ˈsɝpənt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A snake. archaic,literary
    — He falls into it, who has digg'd a Pit. Who breaks a Hedge is with a Serpent bit.
  2. A subtle, treacherous, malicious person. figuratively
    — He is a very serpent in my way.
  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.
  5. A snake-like monster, such as a dragon or sea serpent.
    — Then Beowulf too rallied. With his whetted dagger he slit a gash in the serpent's middle.
动词 v.
  1. To wind or meander intransitive,obsolete
  2. To encircle. obsolete,transitive
    — fruit-trees, whose boles are serpented with excellent vines

词形变化

serpents plural serpents present,singular,third-person serpenting participle,present serpented participle,past serpented past

词汇关系

近义词
adder edder snake
衍生词
serpent cucumber serpent eagle serpent-eater serpent gourd serpent-grass serpent radish serpent seed serpent star serpent's tongue serpentwood
相关词
herpetology lizard reptile snake

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *serp-
Proto-Indo-European *sérpeti
Proto-Italic *serpō
Latin serpō
Latin serpēns
Old French serpentbor.
Middle English serpent
English serpent
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 serpent.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *serp-
Proto-Indo-European *sérpeti
Proto-Italic *serpō
Latin serpō
Latin serpēns
Old French serpentbor.
Middle English serpent
English serpent
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 serpent.
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