colaphus
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kólaphos).
Noun
colaphus m (genitive colaphī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | colaphus | colaphī |
| genitive | colaphī | colaphōrum |
| dative | colaphō | colaphīs |
| accusative | colaphum | colaphōs |
| ablative | colaphō | colaphīs |
| vocative | colaphe | colaphī |
Descendants
- Asturian: golpe, güelpe
- Catalan: cop, colp
- Corsican: colpu
- → English: colpus
- Franco-Provençal: côp
- Old French: colp
- Friulian: colp
- Galician: golpe
- Italian: colpo
- Norman: co
- Old Occitan: colp
- Occitan: còp
- Romansch: culp, cuolp
- Old Galician-Portuguese: colbe, golbe
- Portuguese: golpe
- Sardinian: colpu, corfu, groffu (etc.)
- Sicilian: corpu
- Old Spanish: colpe, golpe
- Spanish: golpe
- Venetan: colpo
References
- “colaphus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “colaphus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "colaphus", 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)
- colaphus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.