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Definition: Serpent |
SerpentNoun1. Limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous. 2. A firework that moves in serpentine manner when ignited. 3. An obsolete bass cornet; resembles a snake. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "serpent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Bible | Serpent (Heb. nahash; Gr. ophis), frequently noticed in Scripture. More than forty species are found in Syria and Arabia. The poisonous character of the serpent is alluded to in Jacob's blessing on Dan (Gen. 49:17; see Prov. 30:18, 19; James 3:7; Jer. 8:17). (See ADDER.) This word is used symbolically of a deadly, subtle, malicious enemy (Luke 10:19). The serpent is first mentioned in connection with the history of the temptation and fall of our first parents (Gen. 3). It has been well remarked regarding this temptation: "A real serpent was the agent of the temptation, as is plain from what is said of the natural characteristic of the serpent in the first verse of the chapter (3:1), and from the curse pronounced upon the animal itself. But that Satan was the actual tempter, and that he used the serpent merely as his instrument, is evident (1) from the nature of the transaction; for although the serpent may be the most subtle of all the beasts of the field, yet he has not the high intellectual faculties which the tempter here displayed. (2.) In the New Testament it is both directly asserted and in various forms assumed that Satan seduced our first parents into sin (John 8:44; Rom. 16:20; 2 Cor. 11:3, 14; Rev. 12:9; 20:2)." Hodge's System. Theol., ii. 127. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Literature | Serpent An attribute of St. Cecilia, St. Euphemia, and many other saints, either because they trampled on Satan, or because they miraculously cleared some country of such reptiles. (See Dagon .) Serpent, in Christian art, figures in Páadise as the tempter. The brazen serpent gave newness of life to those who were bitten by the fiery dragons and raised their eyes to this symbol. (Numb. xxi. 8.) It is generally placed under the feet of the Virgin, in allusion to the promise made to Eve after the fall. (Gen. iii. 15.) Satan is called the great serpent because under the form of a serpent he tempted Eve. (Rev. xii. 9.) It is rather strange that, in Hindu mythology, hell is called Narac (the region of serpents). (Sir W. Jones.) Serpent metamorphoses. Cadmos and his wife Harmonia were by Zeus converted into serpents and removed to Elysium. Esculapius, god of Epidau'. ros, assumed the form of a serpent when he appeared at Rome during a pestilence. Therefore is it that the goddess of Health bears in her hand a serpent. "O wave, Hygeia, o'er Britannia's throne Thy serpent-wand, and mark it for thine own." Darwin: Economy of Vegetation, iv. Jupiter Ammon appeared to Olympia in the form of a serpent, and became the father of Alexander the Great. "When glides a silver serpent, treacherous guest! And fair Olympia folds him to her breast." Darwin: Economy of Vegetation, i. 2. Jupiter Capitolinus, in a similar form, became the father of Scipio Africanus. The serpent is emblematical- (1) Of wisdom. "Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves" (Matt. x. 16). (2) Of subtilty. "Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field" (Gen. iii. 1). It is said that the cerastes hides in sand that it may bite the horse's foot and get the rider thrown. In allusion to this belief, Jacob says, "Dan shall be ... an adder in the path, that biteth the horse's heels, so that his rider shall fall backward" (Gen. xlix. 17). It is said that serpents, when attacked, swallow their young, and eject them again on reaching a place of safety. Thomas Lodge says that people called Sauveurs have St. Catherine's wheel in the palate of their mouths, and therefore can heal the sting of serpents. The Bible also tells us that it stops up its ears that it may not be charmed by the charmer. (Ps. lviii. 4.) The serpent is symbolical - (1) Of deity, because, says Plutarch, "it feeds upon its own body; even so all things spring from God, and will be resolved into deity again." (De Iside et Osiride, i. 2, p. 5; and Philo Byblius.) (2) Of eternity, as a corollary of the former. It is represented as forming a circle and holding its tail in its mouth. (3) Of renovation. It is said that the serpent, when it is old, has the power of growing young again `like the eagle," by casting its slough, which is done by squeezing itself between two rocks. (4) Of guardian spirits. It was thus employed by the ancient Greeks and Romans, and not unfrequently the figure of a serpent was depicted on their altars. In the temple of Athen'a at Athens, a serpent was kept in a cage, and called "the Guardian Spirit of the Temple." This serpent was supposed to be animated by the soul of Ericthonius. To cherish a serpent in your bosom. To show kindness to one who proves ungrateful. The Greeks say that a husbandman found a serpent's egg, which he put into his bosom. The egg was hatched by the warmth, and the young serpent stung its benefactor. "Therefore think him as a serpent's egg Which, hatched, would (as his kind) grow dangerous." Shakespeare: Julius Coesar, ii. 1. Their ears have been serpent-licked. They have the gift of foreseeing events, the power of seeing into futurity. This is a Greek superstition. It is said that Cassandra and Helenus were gifted with the power of prophecy, because serpents licked their ears while sleeping in the temple of Apollo. The seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent's head (Gen. iii. 15). The serpent bruised the heel of man; but Christ, the "seed of the woman," bruised the serpent's head. Serpent's food. Fennel is said to be the favourite food of serpents, with the juice of which it restores its sight when dim. Serpents. Brazilian wood is a panacea against the bite of serpents. The Countess of Salisbury, in the reign of James I., had a bedstead made of this wood, and on it is the legend of "Honi soit qui mal y pense." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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In Hinduism, the nagas ("snake") are an ancient race of snake-humans that brought fertility to their venerators; they were especially popular in southern India. They are Varuna's servants. Nagas live in a type of palace called Patala, many of which are in Bhogavati, an underground city. For Malay sailors, nagas are a type of dragon with many heads; in Thailand and Java, the naga is a wealthy underworld deity. They are children of Kasyapa.Nagas
Alternative: Sesa (Java)
- Manasa
- Mucilinda
- Sesha (King of the nagas)
See also: Chinese dragon, Western dragon
Naga is a district in Mie, Japan.
Naga is a city in Camarines Sur province in the Philippines.
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Serpent is a word of Latin origin sometimes used for snake or other reptiles. Specifically The Serpent refers to the snake in the Old Testament, Satan.
Serpent Crypto
It is also the name of a symmetric key block cypher developed by Ross Anderson and colleagues for the AES competition. It was one of the finalists.
Serpent Instrument
A serpent is a wind instrument with a mouthpiece like a brass instrument but side holes like a woodwind instrument. It is a long cone bent into a snakelike shape, hence the name. The serpent is closely related to the cornett. It is generally made out of wood, with walnut being a particularly popular choice. Despite this and the fact that it has fingerholes rather than valves, it is usually classed as a brass, rather than a woodwind, instrument. The Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification places it alongside trumpets.
On early models, the fingerholes were keyless, like on a recorder. Later models, however, add keys, as on a clarinet. The range varies according to the instrument and the player, but typically covers an octave either side of middle C. Some documents from the 18th century, however, state that the instrument can reach notes over two octaves above middle C.
It is thought that the instrument was first used to strengthen the sound of choirs in plainchant. Around the middle of the 18th century, it began to be used in military bands, but was replaced in the 19th century by valved brass instruments. Since then, it has hardly been used at all, although many original models still survive, and it is sometimes played as part of historically authentic performances.
A variation on the serpent was the bass horn, which is essentially the same, but is simpler in shape, consisting of a tube folded back on itself (rather like the modern bassoon), rather than the curvy shape of the original instrument.
A later variation was the ophimonocleide, a sort of cross between the bass horn and the ophicleide. It was never common, and today only a few examples of it exist.
External link
- The Serpent Website
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Serpent is a symmetric key block cipher with block and key sizes size of 128 bits. Serpent is a 32-round substitution-permutation network (SP-network) operating on a block of four 32-bit words. Each round uses 32 copies of the same 4-bit to 4-bit S-box.This algorithm was one of the five finalists in the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) contest, in which it received the second-highest score, losing to Rijndael.
Serpent was designed so that all operations can be executed in parallel, using 32 1-bit slices. The idea behind Serpent was to maximize parallelism, but also to make use of the extensive cryptanalysis work performed on DES.
Serpent was designed by Ross Anderson, Eli Biham, and Lars Knudsen.
External links
- http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/serpent.html
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Snakes Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Squamata Sub-order: Serpentes The snakes or serpents are legless reptiles, some of which have a venomous bite which they use to kill their prey before eating it. Other snakes kill their prey by constriction, for example strangulation.
Snakes are closely related to lizards, which share the order Squamata. There are also several species of legless lizard which superficially resemble snakes, but are not otherwise related to them.
Although they may be venomous and have a bad reputation, snakes do not not prey on humans. Most snakes will attack a human being only if startled or injured. If you look where you are walking and make plenty of noise, a snake will get out of your way rather than waiting for you to step on it. In many areas, most snakes are non-venomous or have venom that is not harmful to humans, and are Colubrid. Australia is an exception - most snakes in Australia are extremely venomous and should be given a very wide berth.
All snakes are carnivorous, eating small animals, birds or insects. Snakes do not chew their food. Snakes have very flexible lower jaws, the two halves of which are not rigidly attached, allowing them to open their mouths wide enough to swallow their prey whole, even if it is larger in diameter than the snake itself. Contrary to the popular myth, at no point do they "unhinge" their jaws (disarticulate their mandibular joints). After eating, snakes become torpid while the process of digestion takes place.
The skin is covered in scales. Most snakes use specialized belly scales to move, gripping surfaces. Their eyelids are permanently closed but transparent "spectacle" scales. They shed their skin periodically. Unlike other reptiles, this is done in one piece, like pulling off a sock. It is thought that the primary purpose of this is to remove external parasites. This periodic renewal has led to the snake being a symbol of healing and medicine, as pictured in the Rod of Asclepius
Detailed vision is limited, but does not prevent detection of movement. A subgroup of snakes called the pit vipers have infrared sensitve receptors in deep grooves between the nostril and eye which allow them to 'see' the heat radiated by animals. Hearing is restricted to the sensing of ground vibrations, as snakes have no external ears. A snake smells through its nose, and the tongue passes airborne particles to the Jacobson's organ in the mouth for examination. The left lung is very small or sometimes even absent, as snakes' tubular bodies require all of their organs to be long and thin, and to accommodate them all only one lung is functional.
some well known snake species are: American Copperhead, King Cobra, Australian copperheads, Rat Snake, Milk Snake, king snakes.
Classification
Order:Squamata
Web link: http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/~uetz/families/taxa.html.
- Suborder Serpentes
- Superfamily Typhlopoidea (Scolecophidia)
- Family Anomalepidae: dawn blind snakes
- Family Typhlopidae: blind Snakes
- Family Leptotyphlopidae /Glauconiidae: slender blind snakes
- Superfamily Henophidia (Boidea)
- Family Aniliidae /Ilysiidae: pipe snakes
- Family Anomochilidae dwarf pipe snakes
- Family Boidae: boas and pythons
- Family Bolyeridae: Round Island boas
- Family Cylindrophiidae: Asian pipe snakes
- Family Loxocemidae: Mexican burrowing pythons
- Family Tropidophiidae
- Family Ungaliophiidae: dwarf boas
- Family Uropeltidae: shield-tail Snakes
- Family Xenopeltidae: Sunbeam Snakes
- Superfamily Xenophidia (Colubroidea = Caenophidia)
- Family Acrochordidae: file snakes
- Family Atractaspididae : mole vipers
- Family Colubridae: colubrids
- Family Elapidae: cobras, kraits, coral snakes
- Family Hydrophiidae: sea snakes
- Family Viperidae: vipers and pit vipers
Miscellaneous
Some of the constellations of the sky are symbolised after snakes. Serpens represents a snake being tamed by the snake-handler Ophiuchus. Hydra is the many-headed serpent killed by Heracles. Hydrus, the water snake, is a minor southern constellation.Snake is considered as a symbol of evil in Christianity.
The Snake is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. It is thought that each animal in the Chinese zodiac is associated with certain personality traits. See: Snake (Zodiac).
The Snake is also the name of a river in the western United States of America (See Snake River.)
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Synonyms: SerpentSynonyms: ophidian (n), snake (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Animal | Alligator, crocodile; saurian; dinosaur; snake, serpent, viper, eft; asp, aspick. |
Bad Man | Villain, rascal, scoundrel, miscreant, budmash, caitiff; wretch, reptile, viper, serpent, basilisk, urchin; tiger, monster; devil; (demon); devil incarnate; demon in human shape, Nana Sahib; hellhound, hellcat; rakehell. |
Convolution | Serpent, eel, maze, labyrinth. |
Adjective: convoluted; winding, twisted; Verb: tortile, tortive; wavy; undated, undulatory; circling, snaky, snake-like, serpentine; serpent, anguill, vermiform; vermicular; mazy, tortuous, sinuous, flexuous, anfractuous, reclivate, rivulose, scolecoid; sigmoid, sigmoidal; spiriferous, spiroid; | |
Cunning | Adjective: cunning, crafty, artful; skillful; subtle, feline, vulpine; cunning as a fox, cunning as a serpent; deep, deep laid; profound; designing, contriving; intriguing;Verb: strategic, diplomatic, politic, Machiavelian, timeserving; artificial; tricky, tricksy; wily, sly, slim, insidious, stealthy; underhand; (hidden); subdolous; deceitful; slippery as an eel, evasive; crooked; arch, pawky, shrewd, acute; sharp, sharp as a tack, sharp as a needle; canny, astute, leery, knowing, up to snuff, too clever by half, not to be caught with chaff. |
Deceiver | Noun: deceiver; (deceive; ); dissembler, hypocrite; sophist, Pharisee, Jesuit, Mawworm, Pecksniff, Joseph Surface, Tartufe, Janus; serpent, snake in the grass, Judas, wolf in sheep's clothing; jilt; shuffler, stool pigeon. |
Evil doer | Snake, viper, adder, snake in the grass; serpent, cobra, asp, rattlesnake, anaconda. |
Imagination | Flying Dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the air, pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky, chateau en Espagne; Utopia, Atlantis, happy valley, millennium, fairyland; land of Prester John, kindgom of Micomicon; work of fiction; (novel); Arabian nights; le pot au lait; dream of Alnashar; (hope). |
Intelligence Wisdom | Prudent; (cautious); sober, stand, solid; considerate, politic, wise in one's generation; watchful; provident; (prepared); in advance of one' age; wise as a serpent, wise as Solomon, wise as Solon. |
Knave | Traitor, betrayer, archtraitor, conspirator, Judas, Catiline; reptile, serpent, snake in the grass, wolf in sheep's clothing, sneak, Jerry Sneak, squealer, tell-tale, mischief-maker; trimmer, fence-sitter, renegade; (tergiversation); truant, recreant; sycophant; (servility). |
Satan | The tempter; the evil one, the evil spirit; the Adversary; the archenemy; the author of evil, the wicked one, the old Serpent; the Prince of darkness, the Prince of this world, the Prince of the power of the air; the foul fiend, the arch fiend; the devil incarnate; the common enemy, the angel of the bottomless pit; Abaddon, Apollyon. |
Unconformity | Phoenix, chimera, hydra, sphinx, minotaur; griffin, griffon; centaur; saggittary; kraken, wyvern, roc, dragon, sea serpent; mermaid, merman, merfolk; unicorn; Cyclops, "men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders"; teratology. |
Vice | Phrase: alitur vitium vivitque tegendo; genus est mortis male vivere; mala mens malus animus; nemo repente fuit turpissimus; "the trail of the serpent is over them all"; "to sanction vice and hunt decorum down". |
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Screenplays | Yea, Fred said just because he planted a garden of Eden, there was no reason to let the serpent in. (Sanford and Son; writing credit: Earl Barret; Ted Bergman) A Serpent guard, a Horus guard and a Setesh guard meet on a neutral planet (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright) Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under't (Macbeth; writing credit: Roman Polanski; William Shakespeare) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Le Serpent (1972) Eve and the Serpent (1966) Serpent (1961) The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1957) Serpent Island (1954) | |
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 | Down with the traitors serpent flag. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Title page of De magnete, with serpent wound about wooden T staff clasped by two hands. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Lion-headed serpent devouring its eagle-headed tail entwined about faces representing an alchemical combination of mercury and sulfer, an emblem of the unity of all matter. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The brazen serpent / painted by Gustave Doré ; engraved by Alphonse François/Membre de la Institut de France. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Serpent 03" by Nicholas Sales Commentary: "Serpent." |
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Charles Mackay | An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent. |
Christopher Marlowe | Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is more knave than fool. |
John Milton | The serpent subtlest beast of all the field. |
Minna Antrim | The ''Green-eyed Monster'' causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She detests the serpent through rivalry of trade |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The devil, once a shining angel, a son of the morning, now a foul fiend, came in the shape of a serpent, the subtlest of all the beasts of the field |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BASILISK, n. The cockatrice. A sort of serpent hatched form the egg of a cock. The basilisk had a bad eye, and its glance was fatal. Many infidels deny this creature's existence, but Semprello Aurator saw and handled one that had been blinded by lightning as a punishment for having fatally gazed on a lady of rank whom Jupiter loved. Juno afterward restored the reptile's sight and hid it in a cave. Nothing is so well attested by the ancients as the existence of the basilisk, but the cocks have stopped laying. |
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| "Serpent" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.20% of the time. "Serpent" is used about 249 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.2% | 247 | 18,964 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.8% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 249 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "serpent". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Nahash | N/A | Biblical | Serpent |
| Shephuphan | N/A | Biblical | Serpent |
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Expressions using "serpent": Pharaoh's serpent ♦ sea serpent ♦ serpent charmer ♦ serpent cucumber ♦ serpent eage ♦ serpent eater ♦ serpent fern ♦ serpent fish ♦ serpent star ♦ serpent stone ♦ serpent technique ♦ serpent turn ♦ serpent withe ♦ slant serpent ♦ the old serpent ♦ the serpent ♦ Tree serpent ♦ wise as a serpent. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "serpent": serpent-bearer, serpent-licked, serpent-like, serpent-line, serpent-locked, Serpent-tongued, serpent-woman, serpent-worship. | |
Ending with "serpent": gem-serpent, god-serpent, half-serpent, sea-serpent. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "serpent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | slang (snake). (various references) | |
Albanian | gjarpër (asp, ophidian, snake, viper). (various references) | |
Arabic | حية (snake), الخداع (deceiver), أفعى (adder, boa, snake, worm), شيطان (archenemy, bally, demon, devil, familiar, fiend, lucifer, pestilential, pixy, prince of darkness, puckish, satan). (various references) | |
Aymara | catari. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | змей (dragon), змия (adder, asp, ophidian, snake, viper), лукав човек (weasel), лисица (dodger), дракон (dragon). (various references) | |
Chinese | 蛇 (snake). (various references) | |
Czech | had (sand-viper, snake). (various references) | |
Danish | slange (inner tube, snake, tube). (various references) | |
Dutch | slang (snake). (various references) | |
Esperanto | serpento (snake). (various references) | |
Faeroese | slanga (barrel, channel, pipe, snake, tube), ormur (grub, larva, snake, worm). (various references) | |
Farsi | ماربزرگ , مار (Worm), ابلیس . (various references) | |
Finnish | käärme (snake). (various references) | |
French | serpent (serpent technique). (various references) | |
German | Schlange (coil, jezebel, line, procession, queue, snake, string, train, viper). (various references) | |
Greek | όφισ (snake), φίδι (snake). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | gjarpër (snake). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שטן (adversary, arch enemy, devil, fiend, prince of darkness), אופיקלד, נחש (snake). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kígyó (ophidian, snake). (various references) | |
Icelandic | ormur (snake). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ular (snake). (various references) | |
Irish | nathair (snake). (various references) | |
Italian | serpente (snake). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 蛇 (snake), 大蛇 (big snake). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | へびざ, へび (snake), だいじゃ (big snake). (various references) | |
Korean | 독사. (various references) | |
Lombard | serpent (snake), bissa (snake). (various references) | |
Manx | ayr-nieu, ardnieu (snake), aarnieu (adder, snake, viper). (various references) | |
Norwegian | orm (snake). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | erpentsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | serpente (cockatrice, ophidian, snake, viper), cobra (adder, expert, ophidian, snake, viper). (various references) | |
Romanian | viperã (adder, asp, aspic, snake, viper), om prefãcut, om perfid (sneak), şarpe (dragon, snake). (various references) | |
Russian | змея (asp, bom, boma, ophidian, snake). (various references) | |
Scottish | nathair (a serpent, adder, snake). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zmija (ophidian, snake), guja (adder, ophidian, snake, viper). (various references) | |
Spanish | serpiente (snake). (various references) | |
Sranan | sneki (snake), langaman (snake). (various references) | |
Swahili | nyoka (snake). (various references) | |
Swedish | orm (ophidian, snake, sneak, viper). (various references) | |
Tagalog | áhas (snake). (various references) | |
Turkish | yılan takımyıldızı, yılan gibi kıvrılan şey, yılan (ophido-, snake, viper), kıvrımlı parça, kıvrık havai fişek, hain (betrayer, cattish, catty, deceitful, dingo, disloyal, faithless, false, false-hearted, foul, insidious, Judas, malicious, nefarious, perfidious, rat, Ratter, renegade, scoundrel, scoundrelly, snaky, traitor, traitorous, treacherous, ungrateful, villain, viperish, viperous, wicked). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гадюка (asp, viper), змія (asp, aspic, ophidian, snake). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | rắn biển (sea serpent), người dụ rắn (serpent-charmer), người bắt rắn (serpent-charmer, snake-charmer). (various references) | |
Welsh | sarff, neidr (adder, snake). (various references) | |
Yucatec | kan (snake). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | anguis, coluber, colubrarum, colubri, Cyrtodactylus serpensinsula, Ophisurus serpens, serpens, serpente, serpentem, serpentes, serpenti, serpentibus, serpentis, serpentium, vipera. (various references) |
| Classical Hebrew | 200 BCE-Modern | livyathan. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 3, Verse 4 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai eipen o ofiV th gunaiki ou qanatw apoqaneisqe |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Dixit autem serpens ad mulierem nequaquam morte moriemini |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ða cwæð seo nædre eft to ðam wife, "Ne beo ge nateshwon deade, ðeah ðe ge of ðam treowe eton. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Forsothe the eddre seide to the woman, Thury deth ye shal not die; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Then sayd the serpent vnto the woman: tush ye shall not dye: |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And the serpent said to the woman, Ye shall not surely die: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And the snake said, Death will not certainly come to you: |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 3, Verse 4 |
| Bulgarian | А змията рече на жената: Никак няма да умрете; |
| Cebuano | Ug ang bitin miingon sa babaye: Dili gayud kamo mamatay. |
| Croatian | Nato æe zmija ženi: "Ne, neæete umrijeti! |
| Danish | Da sagde Slangen til Kvinden: "I skal ingenlunde dø; |
| Dutch | Toen zeide de slang tot de vrouw: Gijlieden zult den dood niet sterven; |
| Finnish | Niin käärme sanoi vaimolle: "Ette suinkaan kuole; |
| French | Alors le serpent dit à la femme: Vous ne mourrez point; |
| German | Da sprach die Schlange zum Weibe: Ihr werdet mitnichten des Todes sterben; |
| Haitian Creole | Lè sa a, sèpan an di fanm lan. Se pa vre. Nou p'ap mouri kras. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ular itu menjawab, "Itu tidak benar; kalian tidak akan mati. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Lalu kata ular kepada perempuan itu: Niscaya tiada kamu akan mati, |
| Italian | Ma il serpente disse alla donna: «Non morirete affatto! |
| Maori | Na ko te meatanga a te nakahi ki te wahine, E kore korua e mate rawa: |
| Norwegian | Da sa slangen til kvinnen: I skal visselig ikke dø; |
| Portuguese | Disse a serpente à mulher: Certamente não morrereis. |
| Rumanian | Atunci warpele a zis femeii: ,,Hotqrkt, cq nu veyi muri: |
| Spanish | Entonces la serpiente dijo a la mujer: --Ciertamente no moriréis. |
| Swedish | Då sade ormen till kvinnan: "Ingalunda skolen I dö; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "serpent": serpentine, serpentinely, serpentines, serpents. (additional references) | |
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"Serpent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Jerpoint, sarsenet, Seapen, seprut, serept, sergent, serpant, serpeant, Serpina, servent, sherpani, sierbein. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "serpent" (pronounced ser"punt) |
| 4 | -p u n t | flippant, occupant, participant, rampant. |
| 3 | -u n t | agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: penster, present, repents. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-n-p-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: enters, nester, pester, peters, preens, preset, renest, rentes, repent, resent, sprent, tenser, ternes, treens. | |
-2 letters: enter, ernes, ester, neeps, nerts, peens, peers, penes, perse, peter, preen, prees, prese, prest, reest, rente, rents, reset, sente, sneer, speer, spent, spree, steep, steer, stere, stern, strep, teens, tense, terne, terns, terse, treen, trees. | |
-3 letters: erne, erns. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-n-p-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: besprent, pensters, percents, perpents, pertness, precents, presents, preteens, pretends, pretense, prevents, serpents, terpenes. | |
+2 letters: aperients, copresent, entrepots, entropies, inexperts, interpose, nephrites, outpreens, overspent, personate, pestering, petronels, pinsetter, pistareen, preenacts, prentices, prescient, presented, presentee, presenter, presently, president, pretences, pretenses, preunites, reinspect, repenters, repetends, represent, sparteine, spinneret, trephines. | |
+3 letters: antiherpes, carpenters, copresents, depressant, enraptures, enterprise, epicenters, escarpment, expertness, externship, hypertense, intercepts, interlopes, interphase, interposed, interposer, interposes, interprets, interspace, nonexperts, notepapers, parentages, parentless, pedantries, pedestrian, penetrants, penetrates, perennates, permanents, persistent, personated, personates, pertnesses, pinsetters, pistareens, pleasanter, precedents, precentors, predestine, premoisten, presentees, presenters, presenting, presentism, presentist, presetting, presidents, presweeten, pretenders, pretension, pretesting, prettiness, prevalents, preventers, princelets, printeries, proteinase, protensive, pteridines, putrescent, putrescine, raptnesses, receptions, recipients, reinspects, repatterns, repayments, repellants, repellents, repletions, represents, reprinters, respecting, respondent, resupinate, rinderpest, sceptering, septenarii, serpentine, snippetier, sparteines, spinnerets, spleenwort, splintered, stepparent, superagent, terpenoids, terpineols, trapnested, trepo</ | |
