colubra

Latin

Etymology

Feminine form of coluber (“snake, serpent”); coluber +‎ -a (feminine suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈko.lu.bra/, [ˈkɔɫ̪ʊbrä] or IPA^(key): /koˈlub.ra/, [kɔˈɫ̪ʊbrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.lu.bra/, [ˈkɔːlubrä] or IPA^(key): /koˈlub.ra/, [koˈlubrä]

Noun

colubra f (genitive colubrae); first declension

1. a female snake, serpent
2. (in general) snake, serpent

   Synonyms: anguis, coluber, serpēns

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	colubra	colubrae
genitive	colubrae	colubrārum
dative	colubrae	colubrīs
accusative	colubram	colubrās
ablative	colubrā	colubrīs
vocative	colubra	colubrae

Related terms

• coluber
• colubrifer
• colubrimodus
• colubrīnus
• colubrōsus

 

Descendants

• Old Asturian: cuélebra
• Vulgar Latin: *colŏbra (see there for further descendants)

References

• “colubra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “colubra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• colubra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.