culebra

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish culebra.

Noun

culebra

1. snake

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish culuebra, from Vulgar Latin *colŏbra, altered from Classical Latin colubra. Cognate with Portuguese cobra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuˈlebɾa/ [kuˈle.β̞ɾa]
• Rhymes: -ebɾa
• Syllabification: cu‧le‧bra
• Homophone: Culebra

Noun

culebra f (plural culebras)

1. snake, serpent (legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes)

   Synonyms: serpiente, víbora

2. (specifically) (colubrid) snake (snake in the family Colubridae, completely covered in scales and mostly nonvenomous)
3. (specifically) a small snake

Hyponyms

• cascabel
• cobra
• crótalo
• mamba
• pitón
• sierpe
• taipán
• víbora

Derived terms

• aculebrar
• culebra bastarda
• culebra de agua
• culebra de cascabel
• culebra de collar
• culebra de cristal
• culebra de escalera
• culebra viperina
• culebrear
• culebrón
• hierba de la culebra
• sapos y culebras

 

Related terms

• cobra

 

Descendants

• Chavacano: culebra
• Papiamentu: kolebra

Further reading

• “culebra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Anagrams

• curable