Where does “serpō” come from?

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

serpō (Latin): to creep, crawl, move slowly of an animal

Definitions

  1. to creep, crawl, move slowly of an animal

Ancestry of “serpō”, step by step

serpō traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Indo-European serp-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeanserp-to creep, crawl

via Proto-Italic serpō

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Italicserpō

Words derived from “serpō

Every word from Proto-Indo-European serp-