coluber

See also: Coluber

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unknown origin, but possibly related in some way to colus (“distaff”), perhaps via a hypothetical Proto-Italic *kolozros.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

coluber m (genitive colubrī); second declension

  1. snake, serpent

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

singular plural
nominative coluber colubrī
genitive colubrī colubrōrum
dative colubrō colubrīs
accusative colubrum colubrōs
ablative colubrō colubrīs
vocative coluber colubrī

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Derived terms

Descendants

See also colubra.

  • Inherited:
    • Vulgar Latin: colober
      • Asturian: cuélebre
      • Old Spanish: culuebro
      • Sardinian: colovru, coloru, caloru, caboru, caoru
  • Borrowings:
  • Derivations:

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “colubra (> Derivatives: > culber, -brī)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 126

Further reading

  • “coluber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “coluber”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • coluber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • coluber in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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