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Cobra

2 stages from Portuguese to English.

Today it means a venomous snake known for the hood it displays when threatened
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Stage 1 of 2
cobra de capelo
Portuguese · 1500s
"hooded snake"
literally snake of the hood, describing the snake's distinctive hood
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Stage 2 of 2
cobra
English · 1800s
"a venomous hooded snake"
shortened and settled as the English word for the hooded venomous snake
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