The story
- Latin · derived fromcolubra
- Old French · derived fromcoulevrine
- Middle English · inherited fromculveryne
- English todayculverin
From Middle English culveryne, from Old French coulevrine, from couleuvre (“snake”) (or from Latin colubrīnus), ultimately from Latin colubra, coluber (“snake”). Doublet of colubrine.
Words from the same roots
Latincolubra all →
cobra
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.