sarpo
Javanese
Noun
sarpo
- Nonstandard spelling of sarpa.
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *srp-, with cognates including Old Church Slavonic срьпъ (srĭpŭ, “sickle”), Latvian sirpis. Traditionally connected with Ancient Greek ἁρπάγη (harpágē, “hook”), whence Latin harpagō and English harpoon, in turn uncertainly related to ἅρπη (hárpē, “bird of prey; sickle”), itself uncertainly derived from *serp-.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈsar.poː/, [ˈs̠ärpoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsar.po/, [ˈsärpo]
Verb
sarpō (present infinitive sarpere, perfect active sarpsī, supine sarptum); third conjugation
- I prune (especially the vine)
Conjugation
Descendants
- Spanish: serpollo
References
- “sarpo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press