coobra
Old Galician-Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin *colŏbra, altered from Classical Latin colubra, feminine counterpart to coluber (“snake”), of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
coobra f
- snake
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 368 (facsimile):
- [C]omo nos ſṫa M(aria) do poꝛto guariu ũa moller dũa coobꝛa que tragia eno uentre e auie ben tres años
- (H)ow Holy Mary of the port cured a woman of a snake she had in her belly for three years.
- c. 1350, Kelvin M. Parker, editor, Historia Troyana, page 90:
- Et a coobra estouo queda, et aseyto a pasariña, et aspero a, et abreu a boca hũ pouco.
- And the snake stood still, and lurked on the bird, and waited for it, and opened his mouth just a bit