colpus
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Late Latin colpus (“stroke; strike; hit”), from earlier Latin colaphus. Doublet of coup.
Noun
[edit]colpus (plural colpi)
- (botany, palynology) A groove sometimes occurring on grains of pollen
Coordinate terms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Latin
[edit]Noun
[edit]colpus m (genitive colpī); second declension (Late Latin)
- Alternative form of colaphus (found in the Lex Salica)[1]
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | colpus | colpī |
| Genitive | colpī | colpōrum |
| Dative | colpō | colpīs |
| Accusative | colpum | colpōs |
| Ablative | colpō | colpīs |
| Vocative | colpe | colpī |
Descendants
[edit]- 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
References
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Categories:
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kelh₂-
- English terms derived from Late Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English doublets
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- en:Botany
- en:Palynology
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin second declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the second declension
- Latin masculine nouns
- Late Latin