colp
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
colp (plural colps)
- Alternative form of collop
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
colp (plural colps)
- (medicine, colloquial) Short for colposcopy.
Further readingEdit
- colp in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
colp m (plural colps)
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “colp” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “colp”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “colp” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “colp” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Old FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Vulgar Latin *colpus, syncopated form of Latin colaphus, from Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kólaphos, “blow, smack”).
NounEdit
colp m (oblique plural cols, nominative singular cols, nominative plural colp)
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Old OccitanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Vulgar Latin *colpus, syncopated form of Latin colaphus, from Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kólaphos, “blow, smack”).
NounEdit
colp m (oblique plural colps, nominative singular colps, nominative plural colp)
DescendantsEdit
- Occitan: còp
ReferencesEdit
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “colaphus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 865