colaphus
Latin
Alternative forms
- colaphos, colafus, colophus, culapus, colpus
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kólaphos).
Noun
colaphus m (genitive colaphī); second declension
- a blow with the fist; cuff
- Synonyms: vulnus, pulsus, ictus, plāga
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | 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
- French: coup
- → English: coup
- French: coup
- Friulian: colp
- Galician: golpe
- Italian: colpo
- Norman: co
- Old Occitan: colp
- Occitan: còp
- Romansch: culp, cuolp
- Old Portuguese: colbe, golbe
- Portuguese: golpe
- Sardinian: colpu, corfu, groffu (etc.)
- Sicilian: corpu
- Old Spanish: colpe, golpe
- Spanish: golpe
- Venetian: 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