serpere
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin serpere, present active infinitive of serpō (“I creep, crawl”), from Proto-Italic *serpō, from Proto-Indo-European *sérp-e-ti ~ *sérp-onti, thematic root present of *serp- (“to creep, crawl”). Cognate with Greek έρπω (érpo, “I crawl, creep”).
Pronunciation
Verb
serpere
- (literary, intransitive, chiefly figurative) to snake (to follow or move in a winding route)
- Synonym: serpeggiare
- 1840, Alessandro Manzoni, I promessi sposi[1], Tip. Guglielmini e Redaelli, Capitolo XXXI, page 591:
- andò covando e serpendo lentamente, tutto il restante dell’anno, e ne’ primi mesi del susseguente 1630.
- [the contagion] went on lurking and creeping for the rest of the year, and the first months of the following 1630
Usage notes
- The verb lacks the past participle form and the compound tenses.
Conjugation
Related terms
References
- serpere in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) serpere
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