Where does “cobra” come from?
cobra (Galician) comes from Old Portuguese cobra, from Latin cōpula, from Latin coapula, from Latin apio, from Latin apium, from Latin Apis, from Ancient Greek Ἄπις, from Coptic ϩⲁⲡⲉ — the god Apis.
cobra (Galician): snake; cobra; stanze
Definitions
- snake; cobra; stanze
Ancestry of “cobra”, step by step
cobra traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Old Portuguese cobra
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old Portuguese | cobra | — |
| 2 | Latin | cōpula | a bond, tie, band or other connecting item |
| 3 | Latin | coapula | — |
| 4 | Latin | apio | dative singular of apium; ablative singular of... |
| 5 | Latin | apium | parsley; celery; genitive plural of apis |
| 6 | Latin | Apis | A seaport town of Egypt situated at the borders with Marmarica |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | Ἄπις | — |
| 8 | Coptic | ϩⲁⲡⲉ | the Apis bull, a bull worshipped as a herald of the gods (first Ptah, then Osiris, then Atum) |
| 9 | Egyptian | ḥp | the god Apis |
via Old Portuguese coobra
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old Portuguese | coobra | snake |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | colobra | — |
| 3 | Latin | colubra | a female snake, serpent; snake, serpent |
| 4 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -ā | Forms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |