culebra

snake, serpent (legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes); (colubrid) snake (snake in the family Colubridae, completely covered in scales and mostly nonvenomous); a small snake

Etymology tree Latin coluber Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂ Proto-Italic *-ā Latin -a Classical Latin colubra Vulgar Latin *colobra Old Spanish culuebra Spanish culebra Inherited from Old Spanish culuebra, from Vulgar Latin *colobra, from Classical Latin colubra. Cognate with Portuguese cobra.