serpent
英 ['sɜːp(ə)nt]
美 ['sɝpənt]
- n.蛇（特に大きなもの、毒のあるもの）; 狡猾な人
語源
蛇古フランス語のserpent（蛇）から、ラテン語のserpens（蛇、爬虫類）、serpere（這う）から、PIE*serp（這う）の語源、herpetology（爬虫両生類学）のherpes（疱疹）と同じ語源。
英語の語源
- serpent
- serpent: [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 English gets herpes [17] (etymologically the ‘creeping’ disease) and herpetology ‘study of reptiles’ [19].
=> herpes - serpent (n.)
- c. 1300, "limbless reptile," also the tempter in Gen. iii:1-5, from Old French serpent, sarpent "snake, serpent" (12c.), from Latin serpentem (nominative serpens) "snake; creeping thing," also the name of a constellation, from present participle of serpere "to creep," from PIE *serp- "to crawl, creep" (cognates: Sanskrit sarpati "creeps," sarpah "serpent;" Greek herpein "to creep," herpeton "serpent;" Albanian garper "serpent").
Used figuratively of things spiral or regularly sinuous, such as a type of musical instrument (1730). Serpent's tongue as figurative of venomous or stinging speech is from mistaken medieval notion that the serpent's tongue was its "sting." Serpent's tongue also was a name given to fossil shark's teeth (c. 1600).
例文
- 1. He felt as if a serpent had spat venom into his eyes.
- 彼は蛇が自分の目に毒液を噴射したような気がした。
- 2.The serpent fascinated its prey.
- この蛇は捕食しようとする動物を震撼させた。
- 3.There 's a serpent beside him.
- 彼の周りには大蛇がいた。
- 4.Don 't believe him，he is a serpent .
- 信じないで、彼はずるいやつだ。
- 5.We have had a grand voyage and seen a sea- serpent .
- 私たちの航行はとてもすばらしいです。私たちはウミヘビを見ました。
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