coluber

See also: Coluber

Latin

Etymology

Unknown origin, but possibly related in some way to colus (via Proto-Italic *kolos-ro-?).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈko.lu.ber/, [ˈkɔɫ̪ʊbɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.lu.ber/, [ˈkɔːluber]

Noun

coluber m (genitive colubrī); second declension

1. snake, serpent

Declension

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

Case	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

• colubra
• colubrifer
• colubrimodus
• colubrīnus
• colubrōsus

Descendants

• Asturian: cuélebre, culiebra
• Catalan: colobra
• French: couleuvre
• Italian: colubro

• Occitan: colòbra
• Portuguese: cobra
• Sardinian: caloru, caboru, caoru, coloru
• Spanish: culebra

References

• “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
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “colubra”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 126
• coluber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• coluber in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016