FromRussianсерп(serp).

• IPA^(key): [ˈserpo]
• Rhymes:-erpo
• Hyphenation: ser‧po

serpo (accusative singularserpon,pluralserpoj,accusative pluralserpojn)

1. sickle
2. crescent

Clipping ofserpentiini +‎-o

• IPA^(key): /ˈserpo/,[ˈs̠e̞rpo̞]
• Rhymes:-erpo
• Hyphenation^(key):ser‧po

serpo

1. (slang, motor racing)hairpin, verytightturn(in rally)

serpo (pluralserpi)

1. billhook

FromProto-Italic*serpō, fromProto-Indo-European*sérpeti(“to creep, crawl”).^[1] Cognate withSanskritसर्पति(sarpati,“to glide, crawl”),Ancient Greekἕρπω(hérpō), andLatinrēpō.

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /ˈser.poː/,[ˈs̠ɛrpoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /ˈser.po/,[ˈsɛrpo]

serpō (present infinitiveserpere,perfect activeserpsī,supineserptum);third conjugation, nopassive

1. tocreep,crawl,moveslowly(of an animal)
2. (figuratively) tomoveslowly orimperceptibly, tocreepin oralong,proceedgradually, tospread(of a thing or situation)
   • 29BCE – 19BCE,Virgil,Aeneid2.268–269:

     “Tempus erat quō prīma quiēs mortālibus aegrīs
     incipit et dōnō dīvum grātissimaserpit.”

     “It was the time when the first rest for careworn mortals begins, and as a gift of the godsit creeps in most pleasantly.”
     (Theirony of “incipit” and “serpit”: As the weary Trojans rest, Greek soldiers “creep” from the wooden horse; the nighttime attack “begins”.)

3. (of fire) tospread
   • c. 48BCE,Julius Caesar,Commentarii de Bello Civili3.101:

     Cumque ignis magnitudine venti latiusserperet, [...]

     As the firespread more and more, given favourable wind, [...]

¹At least one use of the Old Latin "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used byOld Latin writers; most notablyPlautus andTerence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").

• → Italian:serpere

• “serpo”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “serpo”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• serpo inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
  • a report is spreading imperceptibly:fama serpit (per urbem)
    

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