colze

• colzo, cotze

Inherited from Old Catalan colde, from pre-literary *coude (with hypercorrection of coda [w] to [ɫ]), from Latin cubitum. Compare the development of Catalan malalt, delme from original malaute, deume (Latin male habitus, decimus). The subsequent change from /d/ to /(d)z/ may have been by analogy with polze (“thumb”). Doublet of cúbit, a borrowing from Latin.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkol.zə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkol.ze]

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colze m (plural colzes)

1. elbow
2. cubit, an informal unit of length based on the distance of a forearm and hand
3. (historical) codo, Spanish cubit, a traditional unit of length equivalent to about 41.6 cm
4. (golf) dogleg

• colzada
• recolzar

• “colze”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “colze” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.