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発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈsɛr.poː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈsɛr.po]

動詞

serpō (present infinitive serpere, perfect active serpsī, supine serptum); third conjugation, no passive

1. to creep, crawl, move slowly (of an animal)
2. (figuratively) to move slowly or imperceptibly, to creep in or along, proceed gradually, to spread (of a thing or situation)
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 2.268–269:

     “Tempus erat quō prīma quiēs mortālibus aegrīs
     incipit et dōnō dīvum grātissima serpit.”

     “It was the time when the first rest for careworn mortals begins, and as a gift of the gods it creeps in most pleasantly.”
     (The irony of “incipit” and “serpit”: As the weary Trojans rest, Greek soldiers “creep” from the wooden horse; the nighttime attack “begins”.)

3. (of fire) to spread
   • c. 48 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Civili 3.101:

     Cumque ignis magnitudine venti latius serperet, [...]

     As the fire spread more and more, given favourable wind, [...]

Conjugation

At least one use of the Old Latin "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• → Italian: serpere

参照

• “serpo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “serpo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “serpo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a report is spreading imperceptibly: fama serpit (per urbem)