Feminine

víbora

Meaning

  1. (feminine) viper, adder
  2. (feminine) malicious person, snake in the grass
  3. (Mexico, colloquial, feminine) snake

Concepts

Frequency

C2
Hyphenated as
ví‧bo‧ra
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbiboɾa/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old Spanish biuora, from Latin vīpera (“viper”), a conflation of vīvus (“alive”) + pariō (“to give birth to”). Doublet of guiverno.

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