colostra

English

Noun

colostra

1. plural of colostrum

Anagrams

• Locastro, crotalos, locators

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Latin

Alternative forms

• colustra
• colostrum

Etymology

Of uncertain origin; proposed derivations include:

• From Proto-Indo-European *kwel-, common to Old English hwylca (“varix”), hwelian (“to suppurate”) and Lithuanian švelnùs (“soft, smooth”).
• From Proto-Indo-European *ḱewH- (“to swell”). Cognates include Latin cavus (“hollow”), Old Norse hváll (“round hill”) and Armenian շեղջ (šeġǰ, “heap, pile”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koˈlos.tra/, [kɔˈɫ̪ɔs̠t̪rä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈlos.tra/, [koˈlɔst̪rä]

Noun

colostra f (genitive colostrae); first declension
colostra n pl (genitive colostrōrum); second declension

1. colostrum, beestings

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	colostra	colostrae
Genitive	colostrae	colostrārum
Dative	colostrae	colostrīs
Accusative	colostram	colostrās
Ablative	colostrā	colostrīs
Vocative	colostra	colostrae

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	colostra
Genitive	colostrōrum
Dative	colostrīs
Accusative	colostra
Ablative	colostrīs
Vocative	colostra

Descendants

• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: calostre
• Old Galician-Portuguese:
  • Galician: costro, costre, cuestro, quiostro
  • Portuguese: crosto
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: calostro
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: caiostre
• → Albanian: qumësht
• → Albanian: kulloshtër
• → Czech: kolostrum
• → English: colostrum
• → French: colostrum
• → German: Kolostrum
• → Hungarian: kolosztrum
• → Italian: colostro
• → Occitan: colòstrum
• → Portuguese: colostro
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin:
  • Eastern Romance:
    • Aromanian: curastrã, culastrã
    • Romanian: colastră, coraslă, culastră, curastră, corastră

References

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