coleo

See also: coleó and coleo-

Latin

From cōleus +‎ -ō. Attested in the glossary quoted below, which was translated in Carolingian times from a Greek original.^[1]

cōleō m (genitive cōleōnis); third declension (Early Medieval Latin)

testicle
- c. 8th century C.E., “famex” in Glossae nominum^[2]^[2]^[3]
  Famex spado contusis culionibus
  A famex is a eunuch who has had his balls crushed^[sic]

Third-declension noun.

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: coglione
- Sicilian: cugghiuni, cugliuni
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: cozone, colloni, calloni (Campidanese)
North Italian:
- Friulian: coion
- Romansch: cugliun
- Venetan: cojon
Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: colló
- Old French: coillon (see there for further descendants)
- Occitan: colhon
Ibero-Romance:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: colhon
  - Galician: collón
  - Portuguese: colhão
- Spanish: cojón
  - → English: cojones (from the plural)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cōleō

Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “cojón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 131

^ Bücheler, Franz. 1907. Eine italische eine rheinische Thon-Inschrift. Bonner Jahrbücher 116. 298.
^ “2. culio”, in Thesaurus linguae Latinae, volume 4, 1909, page 1289
^ Georg Getz, Carl Gustav Löwe, Wilhelm C. Heraeus, Gotthold E. Gundermann (1888) Corpus glossariorum Latinorum: Glossae Latinograecae et Graecolatinae. Accedunt minora utriusque linguae glossaria‎^[1], volume II, Leipzig: B. G. Teubner Verlag, page 579: “Famex spado contusis culionibus”

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