different between snake vs cantil

English

Etymology

From Middle English snake, from Old English snaca (“snake, serpent, reptile”), from Proto-Germanic *snakô (compare German Low German Snake, Snaak (“snake”), dialectal German Schnake (“adder”), Swedish snok (“grass snake”), Icelandic snákur (“snake”)), derived from *snakan? (“to crawl”) (compare Old High German snahhan), from Proto-Indo-European *sneg- (“to crawl; a creeping thing”). Cognate with Sanskrit ??? (n?gá, “snake”)). Doublet of n?ga.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sn?k, IPA^(key): /?sne?k/
• Rhymes: -e?k

Noun

snake (plural snakes)

1. A legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue.

   Synonyms: joe blake, serpent
2. A treacherous person.
3. (Ireland) Somebody who acts deceitfully for social gain.
4. A tool for unclogging plumbing.

   Synonyms: auger, plumber's snake

5. A tool to aid cable pulling.

   Synonym: wirepuller

6. (Australia) A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake.
7. (slang) Trouser snake; the penis.

   Synonym: trouser snake

8. (mathematics) A series of Bézier curves.
9. (cartomancy) The seventh Lenormand card.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: sneki

Translations

Verb

snake (third-person singular simple present snakes, present participle snaking, simple past and past participle snaked)

1. (intransitive) To follow or move in a winding route.

   Synonyms: slither, wind

2. (transitive, Australia, slang) To steal slyly.
3. (transitive) To clean using a plumbing snake.
4. (US, informal) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)

5. (nautical) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.

Translations

See also

• anguine

Further reading

• snake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Kasen, Keans, akens, asken, kaens, kenas, nakes, skean, sneak

Middle English

Alternative forms

• snak, snaca

Etymology

From Old English snaca, from Proto-Germanic *snakô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sna?k(?)/

Noun

snake (plural snakes or snaken or snake)

1. snake
2. serpent

Descendants

• English: snake
  • Sranan Tongo: sneki
• Scots: snak, snake, snaik

References

• “sn?ke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

English

Etymology

From Tzeltal kantiil (“yellow lips”)

Noun

cantil (plural cantils)

1. Any of various snakes of the species Agkistrodon bilineatus.

Anagrams

• Anctil, Catlin, catlin, lactin, tincal

Galician

Etymology

15th century. From canto (“rim, border”) +? -il.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kan?til/

Noun

cantil m (plural cantís)

1. cliff
2. shelf (underwater)
3. a rebate plane

References

• “cantil” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “cantil” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “cantil” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cantil” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Portuguese

Etymology

From canto (“corner”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: can?til
• Rhymes: -iw

Noun

cantil m (plural cantis)

1. canteen (water bottle)

Spanish

Etymology

From canto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kan?til/, [kãn??t?il]

Noun

cantil m (plural cantiles)

1. cliff
2. shelf (underwater)

Derived terms

• acantilar

Further reading

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