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Where does “sarpens” come from?

sarpens (Latin) comes from Latin sarpo, from Proto-Indo-European serp- — to creep, crawl.

Definitions

Ancestry of “sarpens”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinsarpoI prune
2Proto-Indo-Europeanserp-to creep, crawl
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