serpere
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin serpere (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-Italic *serpō, from Proto-Indo-European *sérp-e-ti ~ *sérp-onti, thematic root present of *serp- (“to creep, crawl”). Cognate with Greek έρπω (érpo, “to crawl, creep”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]sèrpere (first-person singular present sèrpo, no past historic, no past participle)
- (literary, intransitive, chiefly figurative) to snake (to follow or move in a winding route)
- Synonym: serpeggiare
- 1840, Alessandro Manzoni, “Capitolo XXXI [Chapter 31]”, in I promessi sposi[1], Tip. Guglielmini e Redaelli, page 591:
- andò covando e serpendo lentamente, tutto il restante dell’anno, e ne’ primi mesi del susseguente 1630.
- [the contagion] went on lurking and creeping for the rest of the year, and the first months of the following 1630
Usage notes
[edit]- The verb lacks the past participle form and the compound tenses.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of sèrpere (root-stressed -ere; defective) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive | sèrpere | |||||
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auxiliary verb | — | gerund | serpèndo | |||
present participle | serpènte | past participle | — | |||
person | singular | plural | ||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | |
indicative | io | tu | lui/lei, esso/essa | noi | voi | loro, essi/esse |
present | sèrpo | sèrpi | sèrpe | serpiàmo | serpéte | sèrpono |
imperfect | serpévo | serpévi | serpéva | serpevàmo | serpevàte | serpévano |
past historic | — | — | — | — | — | — |
future | serperò | serperài | serperà | serperémo | serperéte | serperànno |
conditional | serperèi | serperésti | serperèbbe, serperébbe | serperémmo | serperéste | serperèbbero, serperébbero |
subjunctive | che io | che tu | che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa | che noi | che voi | che loro, che essi/che esse |
present | sèrpa | sèrpa | sèrpa | serpiàmo | serpiàte | sèrpano |
imperfect | serpéssi | serpéssi | serpésse | serpéssimo | serpéste | serpéssero |
imperative | — | tu | Lei | noi | voi | Loro |
sèrpi | sèrpa | serpiàmo | serpéte | sèrpano | ||
negative imperative | non sèrpere | non sèrpa | non serpiàmo | non serpéte | non sèrpano |
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- serpere in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]serpere
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- Italian terms borrowed from Latin
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- Italian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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- Rhymes:Italian/ɛrpere
- Rhymes:Italian/ɛrpere/3 syllables
- Italian lemmas
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- Italian verbs ending in -ere
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