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Origin and history of serval

serval(n.)

African wild cat, a name applied in zoology to various wild cats since 1771, from Modern Latinserval, Frenchserval (Buffon, 1765), from Portuguese(lobo) cerval "lynx," from Latinlupus cervarius (source of Frenchloup cervier) "lynx," etymologically "wolf that hunts the stag," fromcervarius "pertaining to a stag," fromcervus "stag," from PIE*ker-wo- "having horns," suffixed form of root*ker- (1) "horn; head." The actual animals eat small things like rodents and birds. Related:Servaline (adj.)

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"pertaining to the lynx," 1530s, from Germanlüchsern, fromluchs "lynx" (seelynx), or else from Old Frenchloucerve (seeserval).

Proto-Indo-European root meaning "horn; head," with derivatives referring to horned animals, horn-shaped objects, and projecting parts.

It might form all or part of:alpenhorn;Capricorn;carat;carotid;carrot;carotene;cerato-;cerebellum;cerebral;cerebrum;cervical;cervix;charivari;cheer;chelicerae;corn (n.2) "hardening of the skin;"cornea;corner;cornet;cornucopia;cranium;flugelhorn;hart;hartebeest;horn;hornbeam;hornblende;hornet;keratin;kerato-;migraine;monoceros;reindeer;rhinoceros;saveloy;serval;triceratops;unicorn.

It might also be the source of: Sanskritsrngam "horn;" Persiansar "head," Avestansarah- "head;" Greekkarnon "horn,"koryne "club, mace,"koryphe "head;" Latincornu "horn,"cervus "deer;" Old Englishhorn "horn of an animal;" Welshcarw "deer."

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"to split, part or divide by force," Old English cleofan, cleven, cliven "to split, separate" (class II strong verb, past tense cleaf, past participle clofen), from Proto-Germanic *kleuban (source also of Old Saxon klioban, Old Norse kljufa, Danish klöve, Dutch kloven, Old High G

1580s, "pertaining to cognition," with -ive + Latin cognit-, past participle stem of cognoscere "to get to know, recognize," from assimilated form of com "together" (see co-) + gnoscere "to know" (from PIE root *gno- "to know"). Taken over by psychologists and sociologists after

"soft, grayish mass filling the cranial cavity of a vertebrate," in the broadest sense, "organ of consciousness and the mind," Old English brægen "brain," from Proto-Germanic *bragnan (source also of Middle Low German bregen, Old Frisian and Dutch brein), a word of uncertain orig

mid-14c., prompten, "to incite to action, urge," from the adjective or from Latin promptus, past participle of promere "to bring forth," from pro "forward" (from PIE root *per- (1) "forward") + emere "to take" (from PIE root *em- "to take, distribute"). The meaning "coach (someon

second day of the week, Middle English monedai, from Old English mōndæg, contraction of mōnandæg "Monday," literally "day of the moon," from mona (genitive monan; see moon (n.)) + dæg (see day). A common Germanic name (compare Old Norse manandagr, Old Frisian monendei, Dutch maan

c. 1500, "to besiege" (a sense now obsolete), from Latin obsessus, past participle of obsidere "watch closely; besiege, occupy; stay, remain, abide" literally "sit opposite to," from ob "against" (see ob-) + sedere "to sit," from PIE root *sed- (1) "to sit." Of evil spirits, "to

"pointed stick or post; stick of wood sharpened at one end for driving into the ground, used as part of a fence, as a boundary-mark, as a post to tether an animal to, or as a support for something (a vine, a tent, etc.)," Old English staca "pin, stake," from Proto-Germanic *stako

"light woolen stuff loosely woven, flag-material," 1742, of uncertain origin; perhaps from a dialectal survival of Middle English bonting "sifting," verbal noun from bonten "to sift," because cloth was used for sifting grain. The Middle English verb is via Old French, from Vulgar

mid-14c., prosperen, "be successful, thrive, advance in any good thing," from Old French prosperer (14c.) and directly from Latin prosperare "cause to succeed, render happy," from prosperus "favorable, fortunate, prosperous" (source also of Spanish and Italian prospero). This is

"the doctrine of a realist," in any sense of that word, 1794, originally in philosophy, from real (adj.) + -ism; after French réalisme or German Realismus; from Late Latin realis "real." In reference to scholastic doctrine of Thomas Aquinas (opposed to nominalism), it is recorded

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