serpit

serpit is a Latin form of serpo, meaning “creep, crawl; (serpens) serpent, snake”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 27 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.177: … timide nec leviter haec improbissima lucra ligurrientem; devorare omnem pecuniam publicam non dubitavit. ita serpit illud insitum in natura malum consuetudine peccandi libera, finem ut audaciae statuere ipse non possit.

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 2.21: … lestúm sator, Iace, óbsecro, in me vím coruscam fúlminis! Nunc, núnc dolorum anxíferi torquent vértices, Nunc sérpit ardor. o ánte victricés manus,

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 9.33.5: Serpit per coloniam fama; concurrere omnes, ipsum puerum tamquam miraculum aspicere, interrogare audire narrare. Pos …

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.