Where does “colubrine” come from?

colubrine (Italian) comes from Italian colubrina, from Latin colubra, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

colubrine (Italian): plural of colubrina

Definitions

  1. plural of colubrina

Ancestry of “colubrine”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiancolubrinaculverin
2Latincolubraa female snake, serpent; snake, serpent
3Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
4Proto-Italic-āForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
5Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →Every word from Latin -a →Every word from Latin colubra →
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