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Where does “serpent” come from?

serpent (Catalan) comes from Latin serpēns, from Latin serpō, from Proto-Indo-European serp- — to creep, crawl.

serpent (Catalan): snake

Definitions

  1. snake

Ancestry of “serpent”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinserpēns—
2Latinserpō—
3Proto-Indo-Europeanserp-to creep, crawl
Every word from Proto-Indo-European serp- →