colaphus

Latin

Alternative forms

• colaphos, colafus, colophus, culapus, colpus

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kólaphos).

Noun

colaphus m (genitive colaphī); second declension

1. a blow with the fist; cuff

   Synonyms: pulsus, ictus, plāga

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	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
• 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

• “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.