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.
Webster's New World
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Singular:
serval
Plural:
servals

Origin of Serval

  • 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

  • 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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