Latin edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kólaphos).

Noun edit

colaphus m (genitive colaphī); second declension

  1. a blow with the fist; cuff
    Synonyms: pulsus, ictus, plāga

Declension edit

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 edit

References edit

  • 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