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colaphus

colaphus

Latin

Noun

colaphus m ‎(genitive colaphī); second declension

a blow with the fist; cuff

Inflection

Second declension.

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

Old French: colp
Old Portuguese: colbe, golbe
Old Provençal: colp
Old Spanish: colpe, golpe
Romansh: 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, 1883–1887)
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “colaphus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.