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serpentibus

serpentibus is a Latin form of serpo, meaning “creep, crawl; (serpens) serpent, snake”.

It can also be a form of serpens, “snake, serpent”. It is the ablative plural feminine noun or present active participle ablative plural masculine or present active participle ablative plural feminine.

Found 41 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.65·2: … ibus saeculis incognita necessitas et usus invenerit. 11 quae tandem utilitas potest in muribus in blattis in serpentibus re- periri, quae homini molesta et perniciosa sunt? an medicina in his aliqua latet? quae si est, inueniatur …

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.