Where does “couleuvre” come from?

couleuvre (Old French) comes from Latin colubra, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

couleuvre (Old French): snake

Definitions

  1. snake

Ancestry of “couleuvre”, step by step

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