Serpent
31SERPENT — Je certifie que j ai tué en diverses fois plusieurs serpents, en mouillant un peu avec ma salive un bâton ou une pierre, et en donnant, sur le milieu du corps du serpent, un petit coup, qui pouvait à peine occasioner une petite contusion. 19 …
32serpent — First appears in the Bible in the J story of the creation (Gen. 2:4–3:24), as an explanation of human sinfulness. The serpent (not yet identified with Satan or the devil) is the tempter. Aaron was endowed with a power to change his staff into a… …
33serpent — nm. : sarpan (Cordon.083, Morzine, Saxel) / ê (Aix, Albanais.001b, Annecy.003, Chambéry.025, Albertville, Leschaux, St Jean Arvey) / in nf. (001a,003,017,025, Arvillard.228, Clefs, Reyvroz, Thônes), sèrpèna (Macôt Plagne). E. : Médisant, Siffler …
34Serpent — Ser|pẹnt 〈m. 1; Mus.〉 schlangenförmig gebogenes Blechblasinstrument [frz., „Schlange“] * * * Serpẹnt [französisch italienisch, zu lateinisch serpens, serpentis »Schlange«] der, (e)s/ e, um 1590 aus dem Zink entwickeltes, weit mensuriertes… …
35serpent — [14] The serpent is etymologically a ‘crawling’ animal. The word comes via Old French serpent from Latin serpēns, a noun use of the present participle of serpere ‘crawl, creep’. This was a close relative of Greek hérpein ‘creep’, from which… …
36serpent — [[t]sɜ͟ː(r)pənt[/t]] serpents N COUNT A serpent is a snake. [LITERARY] ...the serpent in the Garden of Eden …
37serpent — noun 1》 chiefly literary a large snake. ↘a dragon or other mythical snake like reptile. ↘(the Serpent) a biblical name for Satan (see Gen. 3, Rev. 20). ↘a sly or treacherous person. 2》 historical a bass wind instrument made of leather …
38serpent — UK [ˈsɜː(r)pənt] / US [ˈsɜrpənt] noun [countable] Word forms serpent : singular serpent plural serpents literary a snake, especially a large one …
39serpent — [14] The serpent is etymologically a ‘crawling’ animal. The word comes via Old French serpent from Latin serpēns, a noun use of the present participle of serpere ‘crawl, creep’. This was a close relative of Greek hérpein ‘creep’, from which… …
40serpent — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, from Latin serpent , serpens, from present participle of serpere to creep; akin to Greek herpein to creep, Sanskrit sarpati he creeps Date: 13th century 1. a. archaic a noxious creature that… …
