serpentes

serpentes is a Latin form of serpo, meaning “creep, crawl; (serpens) serpent, snake”. It is the present active participle accusative plural masculine or present active participle accusative plural feminine or present active participle nominative plural masculine or present active participle vocative plural masculine.

It can also be a form of serpens, “snake, serpent”.

Found 28 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.124: … ulla in bestiis aquatilibus is quae gignuntur in terra; veluti crocodili fluviatilesque testudines quaedamque serpentes ortae extra aquam simul ac primum niti possunt aquam persequuntur. quin etiam anitum ova gallinis saepe suppo …

Seneca the Younger, De Clementia 1.25.4: Serpentes parvulae fallunt nec publice conquiruntur ; ubi aliqua solitam mensuram transit et in monstrum excrevit, ubi …

All forms of serpo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.