culebra
Chavacano
Etymology
From Spanish culebra.
Noun
culebra
- snake
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish culuebra, from Vulgar Latin *colŏbra, altered from Classical Latin colubra. Cognate with Portuguese cobra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kuˈlebɾa/ [kuˈle.β̞ɾa]
- (Castilian)
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ebɾa
- Syllabification: cu‧le‧bra
- Homophone: Culebra
Noun
culebra f (plural culebras)
- snake, serpent (legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes)
- Synonyms: serpiente, víbora
- (specifically) (colubrid) snake (snake in the family Colubridae, completely covered in scales and mostly nonvenomous)
- (specifically) a small snake
Hyponyms
- cascabel
- cobra
- crótalo
- mamba
- pitón
- sierpe
- taipán
- víbora
Derived terms
- aculebrar
- culebra bastarda
- culebra de agua
- culebra de escalera
- culebra viperina
- culebrear
- culebrón
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