coluber

See also: Coluber

Latin

Alternative forms

• colober (late, proscribed)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔ.ɫʊ.bɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔː.lu.ber]

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

Synonyms

• anguis, colubra, serpēns

Derived terms

• colubrifer
• colubrimodus
• colubrīnus
• colubrōsus

Descendants

See also colubra.

• Inherited:
  • Vulgar Latin: colober
    • Asturian: cuélebre
    • Old Spanish: culuebro
    • Sardinian: colovru, coloru, caloru, caboru, caoru
• Borrowings:
  • → Translingual: Coluber
  • → Italian: colubro
• Derivations:
  • ⇒ Old Occitan: colobrina
    • → Italian: colubrina

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