serpent

fr-noun

serpent m (plural serpents, feminine serpente)

Inherited from Middle French serpent, from Old French serpent, from Latin serpentem, accusative form of serpēns, from serpō (“crawl, creep”).


cobra

Borrowed from Portuguese cobra, from Latin colubra. Doublet of couleuvre.


crocodile

Antillean Creole: krokodil

Mauritian Creole: krokodil

Seychellois Creole: krokodil

→ Romanian: crocodil

→ Persian: کروکودیل (krokodil)

From Old French cocodril, inherited from Latin crocodīlus with metathesis, later respelled to match the Latin form. Compare English crocodile, itself respelled from Middle English cocodrill.


gecko

From Dutch gekko, further possibly from Malay or Acehnese. Compare English gecko for more.


lézard

Louisiana Creole: lézard

→ Romanian: lezard

Inherited from Middle French lezart, from Old French lezart, lesard, laisarde, lajjsarde, from Latin lacertus. Compare English lizard.


tricot

→ Catalan: tricot

→ Czech: triko

→ English: tricot

→ German: Trikot

→ Greek: τρίκο (tríko)

→ Italian: tricot

→ Ottoman Turkish: تریقو (triko)

→ Turkish: triko

→ Polish: trykot

→ Portuguese: tricô

→ Romanian: tricot

→ Spanish: tricot


iguane

Borrowed from Spanish iguana, from Taíno *iwana.


dinosaure

English dinosaur. Coined by paleontologist Richard Owen in 1842.


dragon de Komodo

dragon de Komodo m (plural dragons de Komodo)


tortue

Haitian Creole: tòti

Inherited from Middle French tortue, borrowed from Old Occitan tortuga, tartuga, from Late Latin tartarūcha, feminine form of tartarūchus, a mythological spirit of Greek origin, from Ancient Greek ταρταροῦχος (tartaroûkhos, “resident or native of Tartarus”), from Τάρταρος (Tártaros). Cf. also Medieval Latin tortuca. Compare Spanish tortuga, Italian tartaruga.


vipère

Inherited from Middle French [Term?], from Old French vipre, directly borrowed from Latin vīpera. Displaced an earlier Old French doublet guivre (cf. also French vouivre) and its Old Northern French equivalent wivre.


crotale

Borrowed from Latin crotalum, from Ancient Greek κρόταλον (krótalon).


caméléon

Learned borrowing from Latin chamaeleōn, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek χᾰμαιλέων (khamailéōn).

(figuratively) chameleon (person who always changes)


fer à cheval

horseshoe whip snake (Hemorrhois hippocrepis)

horseshoe bat (the monotypic family Rhinolophidae)

horseshoe vetch (Hippocrepis gen. and spp.)


orvet

Uncertain; probably from Old French orb (“blind”).


ophio-

From Ancient Greek ὄφις (óphis, “snake”).


couleuvre

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *colŏbra, altered from Classical Latin colubra, feminine counterpart to coluber (“snake”), of uncertain origin. Doublet of cobra, a borrowing from Portuguese.


taïpan du désert

fr-noun

taïpan du désert m (plural taïpans du désert)


bongare fascié

bongare fascié m (plural bongares fasciés)


vipère de la mort

vipère de la mort f (plural vipères de la mort)


serpent corail

serpent corail m (plural serpents corails)


bongare indien

bongare indien m (plural bongares indiens)


couleuvre à collier

couleuvre à collier f (plural couleuvres à collier)

Natrix natrix
Natrix natrix#Translingual


tyrannosaure

Les tyrannosaures, gigantesques et effrayants, […] apparurent à la fin du règne des dinosaures. Le plus connu est Tyrannosaurus rex, ou « roi des lézards-tyrans »

1983, M. Vergnies, Les Animaux préhistoriques, translation of original by D. Lambert:

Tyrannosaurs, gigantic and terrifying, […] appeared at the end of the reign of the dinosaurs. The best-known is Tyrannosaurus rex, or "king of the tyrant lizards"


scinque

Learned borrowing from Latin scincos, from Ancient Greek σκίγκος (skínkos).


crocodile marin

crocodile marin m (plural crocodiles marins)


vipère heurtante

vipère heurtante f (plural vipères heurtantes)


boa constricteur

boa constricteur m (plural boas constricteurs)

Unadapted borrowing from New Latin Boa cōnstrictor.

ubor

Boa constrictor
Boa constrictor#Translingual


crocodilée

Mentioned in Ambroise Paré's Des monstres et prodiges (XVIth century).

(historical) An ophthalmic drug produced from crocodiles

Ambroise Paré
Dictionnaire de la langue française
Émile Littré


Ularu

(Australian Aboriginal mythology) A primordial snake-like creator deity