coleus

See also: Coleus

English

typical coleus leaf clusters

Etymology

From the genus name translingual Coleus, from Latin coleus, from Ancient Greek κολεός (koleós, “sheath”) in reference to the manner in which the stamens are united.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊ.li.əs/

Noun

coleus (plural coleuses)

Any of certain plants in the mint family, many used as ornamentals for their colorful, variegated leaves, sometime included in genus Plectranthus (spurflowers), sometimes in their own genus Coleus,
1. especially, Plectranthus scutellarioides, also known as Coleus scutellarioides and Coleus blumei.

Translations

plant with bright-colored or variegated leaves

Bulgarian: копривка (koprivka)
Finnish: värinokkonen (fi)

References

coleus at OneLook Dictionary Search
''Coleus'' on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
''Coleus'' on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
''Coleus'' on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Coleus at Plants of the World Online
Coleus at The Plant List

Anagrams

Clouse, Coules, coulés, oscule

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly akin to cūleus, culleus (“sack”); caulis, cōlis (“stalk”); or cōlum (“sieve”).[1]

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.le.us/, [ˈkoːɫ̪eʊs̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.le.us/, [ˈkɔːleus]

Noun

cōleus m (genitive cōleī); second declension

(vulgar, in the plural) sack (scrotum or testicles), (figuratively) courage
- c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 44.14:
  Sed si nos coleos haberemus, non tantum sibi placeret.
  But if we had the balls, he'd not be so pleased with himself!

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cōleus	cōleī
Genitive	cōleī	cōleōrum
Dative	cōleō	cōleīs
Accusative	cōleum	cōleōs
Ablative	cōleō	cōleīs
Vocative	cōlee	cōleī

Derived terms

cōleātus
cōleō
*cōleum n
*cōleūtus

References

“culleus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
coleus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “cōleī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 124

[1] De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “cōleī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 124