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colus

Latin edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Italic *kʷelus, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷélus, from *kʷel- (“turn”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

colus f (variously declined, genitive colī or colūs); second declension, fourth declension

  1. distaff: a tool used in spinning fiber, such as wool
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.817–818:
      Pallade plācāta lānam mollīre puellae
      discant et plēnās exonerāre colōs.
      Once Pallas's favor has been won: Let the girls learn [how] to soften wool,
      and [how] to unload their full distaffs.
      (‘‘Pallas’’ was an epithet for the patron of handicraft, the Greek goddess Athena, syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva. See distaff and spinning.)
  2. spinning, spun thread
Declension edit

Second-declension noun or fourth-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative colus colī
colūs
Genitive colī
colūs 		colōrum
coluum
Dative colō
coluī 		colīs
colibus
Accusative colum colōs
colūs
Ablative colō
colū 		colīs
colibus
Vocative cole
colus 		colī
colūs

Etymology 2 edit

Alternative form of cōlon (“the colon”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cōlus m (genitive cōlī); second declension

  1. Alternative form of cōlon
Declension edit

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cōlus cōlī
Genitive cōlī cōlōrum
Dative cōlō cōlīs
Accusative cōlum cōlōs
Ablative cōlō cōlīs
Vocative cōle cōlī

References edit

  • “colus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “colus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • colus 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)
  • colus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “colus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “colus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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