sargento

Borrowed from French sergent, from Middle French sergent, from Old French serjant, from Medieval Latin servientem (“a servant, a vassal, a soldier or an apparitor”). Doublet of servente.

• Hyphenation: sar‧gen‧to

sargento m or f by sense (plural sargentos, feminine sargento or (less common) sargenta, feminine plural sargentos or (less common) sargentas)

1. (military) sergeant (rank above that of a corporal)
2. (law enforcement) sergeant (rank in some police forces)
3. (informal, humorous) captain (someone who bosses others around)

• Kadiwéu: jajeentegi

Inherited from Old Spanish sargente, from Middle French sergent, from Old French sergeant, sergent, serjant, sergient, sergant (“sergeant, servant”), from Medieval Latin servientem (“servant, vassal, soldier, apparitor”), from Latin serviēns (“serving”), present participle of serviō (“to serve or to be a slave to”), from servus (“a slave, a serf or a servant”), perhaps from Etruscan; compare Etruscan proper names 𐌔𐌄𐌓𐌅𐌉 (servi) or 𐌔𐌄𐌓𐌅𐌄 (serve);[1] or from Proto-Italic *serwo, from Proto-Indo-European *serwoh₂. Doublet of sirviente.

• IPA^(key): /saɾˈxento/ [saɾˈxẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: sar‧gen‧to

sargento m or f by sense (plural sargentos, feminine sargento or sargenta, feminine plural sargentos or sargentas)

1. sergeant
   • 2023 January 13, Laura Fernández, “‘Happy Valley’: Pelear, brillantemente, hasta el final”, in El País‎:

     Siete años después, llega la tercera y última temporada de la serie que protagoniza Sarah Lancashire en el papel de su vida, el de una durísima y astuta sargento que patrulla una campiña inglesa nada apacible[.]

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sargento m (plural sargentos)

1. clamp

   Synonym: mordaza

• “sargento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014