Serval Definition
sûrvəl, sər-văl
servals
noun
servals
An African wildcat (Leptailurus serval) with a black-spotted, tawny coat, long legs, and no ear tufts.
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Noun
Singular:
serval
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servalsOrigin of Serval
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From French serval, from Portuguese cerval (“Iberian lynx”), from Latin lupus (“wolf”) cervarius (“pertaining to a stag”) (wolf that hunts the stag), cervus (“deer, stag”).
From Wiktionary
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French from Portuguese (lobo) cerval deerlike (wolf), lynx from Late Latin cervālis from Latin cervus deer ker-1 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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