viper, adder · malicious person, snake in the grass · snake
çekim: çoğul víboras
köken: Inherited from Old Spanish biuora, from Latin vīpera (“viper”), a conflation of vīvus (“alive”) + pariō (“to give birth to”). Doublet of guiverno.
aile: lengua de víbora, palo víbora, víbora de la cruz, viborear, viborezno
snake; serpent (any reptile of the suborder Serpentes) · cobra (any snake of the family Elapidae) · viper (malignant person)
çekim: çoğul cobras
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese coobra, from Vulgar Latin *colŏbra, altered from Classical Latin colubra, feminine counterpart to coluber (“snake”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Galician cobra and Spanish culebra.
aile: a cobra vai fumar, andar como cobra quando perde a peçonha, banha da cobra, cágado-pescoço-de-cobra, cipó-de-cobra, cipó-mata-cobras, cobra criada, cobra que não anda, não engole sapo, cobra-capelo, cobra-coral
snake, serpent · snake in the grass, devious person
çekim: çoğul φίδια · tamlayan φιδιού
köken: From Byzantine Greek φίδιν (phídin), ὀφίδιν (ophídin), from Koine Greek ὀφίδιον (ophídion); diminutive of Ancient Greek ὄφις (óphis), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ógʷʰis, *h₃égʷʰis (“snake”). Cognate with Mariupol Greek фидъ (fið).
aile: φιδάκι, βγάζω το φίδι από την τρύπα, μαύρο φίδι που σ' έφαγε, με ζώνουν τα φίδια, με τρώνε τα φίδια, το αυγό του φιδιού, φίδι στον κόρφο μου
snake; a legless reptile of the suborder Serpentes · an earthworm · a larva
çekim: çoğul ormar · tamlayan orms
köken: From Old Swedish ormber (“snake, vermin, ringworm”), from Old Norse ormr, from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis, *wrmo- (“serpent, scorpion, maggot, worm”), maybe from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to turn”). Akin to English worm, wyrm. Doublet of vurm.
basilisk (mythical snake-like dragon, so venomous that even its gaze was deadly) · basilisk (any tree-dwelling lizard of the genus Basiliscus) · snake (treacherous person)
çekim: çoğul bazyliszki · tamlayan bazyliszka
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Hellenic *gʷatiléus Ancient Greek βᾰσῐλεύς (băsĭleús) Proto-Indo-European *-iskos Ancient Greek -ῐ́σκος (-ĭ́skos) Ancient Greek βᾰσῐλῐ́σκος (băsĭlĭ́skos)bor. Latin basiliscuslbor. Old Czech bazilišekbor. Old Polish bazyliszek Polish bazyliszek Inherited from Old Polish bazyliszek.
köken: From Old Irish nathir, from Proto-Celtic *natrixs (compare Welsh neidr, Breton naer), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)néHtr̥, from *(s)neh₁- (“to spin, twist”) (compare German Natter, English adder, Latin natrīx (“water snake”)).