Where does “cobra” come from?
Cobra comes from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra, a word for snake that descended from earlier Latin coluber with the same meaning.
cobra (English): Any of various venomous snakes of the family...
Definitions
- Any of various venomous snakes of the family...
Ancestry of “cobra”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Portuguese | cobra | snake |
| 2 | Old Portuguese | coobra | snake |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | colobra | — |
| 4 | Latin | colubra | a female snake, serpent; snake, serpent |
| 5 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -ā | Forms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |
Words derived from “cobra”