The Spanish and Italian word for rattlesnake, derived from Latin crotalum meaning rattle.
From Latin crotalum (rattle), which came from Greek krotalon, maintaining the original sense in Romance languages as the word for the rattle-bearing snake.
The Spanish explorer Hernán Cortés encountered Aztec rattlesnakes and likely heard them called something similar, creating a word journey from the Greeks to the New World!
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