cerval

Inherited from Latin cervārius (“pertaining to a stag”), from cervus (“deer, stag”). Doublet of serval.

• Homophone: serval
• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: cer‧val

cerval m or f (plural cervais)

1. cervine
2. (figurative) ferocious

• gato-cerval
• lobo-cerval

• French: serval
  • → English: serval
  • → German: Serval
  • → Portuguese: serval
  • Translingual: Felis serval

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θeɾˈbal/ [θeɾˈβ̞al]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /seɾˈbal/ [seɾˈβ̞al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: cer‧val

cerval m or f (masculine and feminine plural cervales)

1. deerlike; deer; cervine
2. tremendous (fear)

• “cerval”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28