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発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈsɜːpənt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɝpənt/
• ハイフネーション: ser‧pent

名詞

serpent (複数形 serpents)

1. (now literary) A snake, especially a large or dangerous one.
2. (figurative) A subtle, treacherous, malicious person.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     At last it came. `Dogs and serpents,' She began in a low voice that gradually gathered power as she went on, till the place rang with it. Eaters of human flesh, two things have ye done. First, ye have attacked these strangers, being white men, and would have slain their servant, and for that alone death is your reward.'

3. (music) An obsolete wind instrument in the brass family, whose shape is suggestive of a snake (Wikipedia article).
4. A kind of firework with a serpentine motion.

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動詞

serpent (三人称単数 現在形 serpents, 現在分詞 serpenting, 過去形および過去分詞形 serpented)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To wind or meander
2. (obsolete, transitive) To encircle.
   • 1645 February 10 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for January 31 1645]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:

     fruit-trees, whose boles are serpented with excellent vines

参考

• herpetology
• lizard
• reptile
• snake

アナグラム

• penster, present, repents, respent

Latin

動詞

serpent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of serpō