colubra

Feminine form of coluber (“snake, serpent”); coluber +‎ -a (feminine suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈko.lu.bra/, [ˈkɔɫ̪ʊbrä] or IPA^(key): /koˈlub.ra/, [kɔˈɫ̪ʊbrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.lu.bra/, [ˈkɔːlubrä] or IPA^(key): /koˈlub.ra/, [koˈlubrä]

colubra f (genitive colubrae); first declension

1. a female snake, serpent
2. (in general) snake, serpent

   Synonyms: anguis, coluber, serpēns

First-declension noun.

• Old Asturian: cuélebra
• Vulgar Latin: *colŏbra (see there for further descendants)

• “colubra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “colubra”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• colubra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.