coluber Latin · revision 6309

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈkɔ.ɫʊ.bɛr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈkɔː.lu.ber]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''coluber''' ''m'' (genitive colubrī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The origin is unknown.^(Wiktionary) The OLD derives it probably from [[ine-pro|*(s)kel-|t=to bend]], comparing [[grc|κελλόν|tr=kellón]], and Köbler likewise, while Wiktionary suggests a link with [[colus]] “distaff”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)^(Wiktionary) Lewis and Short compared [[celer]] “swift”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first citation is Virgil, and Lewis and Short cite his Georgics and Aeneid.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Virgil 70–19 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant a snake, serpent, as in Virgil's Georgics and his snake that glitters in the light, imitating Homer, and the snakes forming the hair of mythological monsters.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Lewis and Short call it poetic.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Its feminine is [[colubra]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Medieval Latin it meant a snake, a worm causing internal pain, the constellation Serpens, and Satan.^(DMLBS) Through Portuguese ''cobra de capello'' “snake of the hood”, from the feminine ''colubra'', it is the source of [[en|cobra]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil uses it of snakes.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1802 – English ''cobra'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|snake]], serpent.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Satan; the constellation Serpens.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[colubra]]

+ * [[colubrifer]]

+ * [[colubrīnus]]

+ * [[colubrosus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[anguis]]

+ * [[serpēns]]

+ * [[en|cobra]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}