sergent

Borrowed from Middle French sergent.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [sərˈʒen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [sərˈʒent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [seɾˈd͡ʒent]

sergent m (plural sergents, feminine sergenta, feminine plural sergentes)

1. sergeant

• “sergent”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “sergent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “sergent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sergent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Middle French, from Old French sergeant, sergent, serjant, sergient, sergant (“sergeant, servant”), from Medieval Latin or Late Latin servientem (“a servant, vassal, soldier, apparitor”), from Classical Latin servientem (“serving”), present participle of serviō, servīre (“serve, be a slave to”). See also servant.

• IPA^(key): /sɛʁ.ʒɑ̃/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃

sergent m (plural sergents, feminine sergente)

1. (military) sergeant

   Synonym: (military slang) serpat

• sergent-chef (“chief sergeant”)
• sergent-major (“sergeant-major”)

• “sergent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French sergent.

sergent m (plural sergenți)

1. sergeant