colaphus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kólaphos).

Noun

colaphus m (genitive colaphī); second declension

1. a blow with the fist; cuff

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
• Catalan: cop
• Corsican: colpu
• English: colpus, coup
• Franco-Provençal: côp
• French: coup
• Friulian: colp
• Galician: golpe
• Italian: colpo
• Norman: co
• Occitan: còp

• Old French: colp
• Old Galician-Portuguese: colbe, golbe
• Old Occitan: colp
• Old Spanish: colpe, golpe
• Romansch: culp, cuolp
• Portuguese: golpe
• Sicilian: colpu, corpu
• 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.