colpus
English
Etymology
From Late Latin colpus (“stroke; strike; hit”), from earlier Latin colaphus. Doublet of coup.
Noun
colpus (plural colpi)
- (botany, palynology) A groove sometimes occurring on grains of pollen
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
- colpate
- colporate
- colporus
- colpus transversalis
- ectocolpus
- pseudocolpus
Latin
Noun
colpus m (genitive colpī); second declension (Late Latin)
- alternative form of colaphus (found in the Lex Salica)[1]
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | colpus | colpī |
| genitive | colpī | colpōrum |
| dative | colpō | colpīs |
| accusative | colpum | colpōs |
| ablative | colpō | colpīs |
| vocative | colpe | colpī |
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