Where does “serpes” come from?

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

serpes (Vulgar Latin): second-person singular future active indicative...

Definitions

  1. second-person singular future active indicative...

Ancestry of “serpes”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinserpēnsA serpent, snake
2Latinserpōto creep, crawl, move slowly of an animal
3Proto-Indo-Europeanserp-to creep, crawl

Words derived from “serpes

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