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Old Spanish
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin colober, altered from Classical Latin coluber.
Pronunciation
Noun
culuebro m (plural culuebros)
- snake, serpent
- c1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 12v. b.
Dixo ael el ſẽnor q̃ es. Eſſo de tu mano Reſpuſo uerga. E dixo echala en tierra echola & fizos culuebro.- The Lord said to him: "What is that in your hand?", and he responded: "a rod", then he said: "cast it down", and so he cast it and it became a serpent.
- Idem, f. 23v. b.
- enbio el nr̃o ſeñor en el pueblo culuebros e eſcorpiones / a qui mordian los iudios los culuebros
- and our Lord sent among the people snakes and scorpions / here the snakes bit the Jews
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