coluber

See also: Coluber

Latin

Alternative forms

colober (late, proscribed)

Etymology

Unknown origin, but possibly related in some way to colus (via Proto-Italic *kolozros?).[1]

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.lu.ber/, [ˈkɔɫ̪ʊbɛr]

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

Noun

coluber m (genitive colubrī); second declension

snake, serpent

Declension

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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

References

De Vaan (2008).

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
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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

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