sargento

Borrowed from French sergent, from Middle French sergent, from Old French serjant, from Medieval Latin servientem (“a servant, a vassal, a soldier or an apparitor”). Doublet of servente.

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• Hyphenation: sar‧gen‧to

sargento m or f by sense (plural sargentos, feminine sargento or (nonstandard) sargenta, feminine plural sargentos or (nonstandard) sargentas)

1. (military) sergeant (rank above that of a corporal)
2. (law enforcement) sergeant (rank in some police forces)
3. (informal, humorous) captain (someone who bosses others around)

• Kadiwéu: jajeentegi

• “sargento”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “sargento”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “sargento”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2026
• “sargento”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• “sargento”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

Inherited from Old Spanish sargente, from Middle French sergent, from Old French sergeant, sergent, serjant, sergient, sergant (“sergeant, servant”), from Medieval Latin servientem (“servant, vassal, soldier, apparitor”), from Latin serviēns (“serving”), present participle of serviō (“to serve or to be a slave to”), from servus (“a slave, a serf or a servant”), perhaps from Etruscan; compare Etruscan proper names 𐌔𐌄𐌓𐌅𐌉 (servi) or 𐌔𐌄𐌓𐌅𐌄 (serve);^[1] or from Proto-Italic *serwo, from Proto-Indo-European *serwoh₂. Doublet of sirviente.

• IPA^(key): /saɾˈxento/ [saɾˈxẽn̪.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ento
• Syllabification: sar‧gen‧to

sargento m or f by sense (plural sargentos, feminine sargento or sargenta, feminine plural sargentos or sargentas)

1. sergeant
   • 2023 January 13, Laura Fernández, “‘Happy Valley’: Pelear, brillantemente, hasta el final”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Siete años después, llega la tercera y última temporada de la serie que protagoniza Sarah Lancashire en el papel de su vida, el de una durísima y astuta sargento que patrulla una campiña inglesa nada apacible[.]

     Seven years later, the third and final season of the series arrives that makes Sarah Lancashire a protagonist in the role of her lifetime, one of a really tough and astute sergeant who patrols a not peaceful English countryside[.]

sargento m (plural sargentos)

1. clamp

   Synonym: mordaza

• “sargento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025