cohum

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *koɣom; related to Proto-Indo-European *kagʰyóm (“enclosure”).[1] Doublet of caium.

Pronunciation

Noun

cohum n (genitive cohī); second declension

  1. The thong or strap used to attach a pole to a yoke

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative cohum coha
genitive cohī cohōrum
dative cohō cohīs
accusative cohum coha
ablative cohō cohīs
vocative cohum coha

References

  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  • “cohum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "cohum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • cohum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “cohum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 123–124
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