Noun: culuebra
Gender: f
Sample Sentences
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[…] ⁊ lo echaren ala biuora o ala culuebra en la garganta afogaſe luego ⁊ muere. ([…] and should they throw it into the throat of the snake or serpent it would then choke and die.) [c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 23v:]
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[…] deſpues del retornamiento peſcueço dela culuebra que tiene el encantador dellas […] ([…] after the returning of the neck of the snake held by the snake charmer […]) [c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 56r.:]
Nouns inflected like culuebra
semana,
sennal,
sangre,
sangne,
siesta,
siella,
çanahoria,
companna,
yantar,
pergamino,
fazienda,
jargonça,
obscuridat,
deuinança,
persona,
culuebra,
grossura,
alcarchofa,
mercadura,
berguença, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *colobra, from Classical Latin colubra, feminine counterpart to coluber (“snake”).
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