Where does “cobro” come from?

cobro (Portuguese) comes from Portuguese cobra, from Old Portuguese coobra, from Vulgar Latin colobra, from Latin colubra, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.

cobro (Portuguese): term

Definitions

  1. term

Ancestry of “cobro”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Portuguesecobrasnake
2Old Portuguesecoobrasnake
3Vulgar Latincolobra—
4Latincolubraa female snake, serpent; snake, serpent
5Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
6Proto-Italic-āForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
7Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →Every word from Latin -a →Every word from Latin colubra →