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serpentium

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

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

Found 26 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1.101: … Aegyptii nullam beluam nisi ob aliquam utilitatem quam ex ea caperent consecraverunt; velut ibes maximam vim serpentium conficiunt, cum sint aves excelsae cruribus rigidis corneo proceroque rostro; avertunt pestem ab Aegypto, cum …

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.