colpus

English

Etymology

From Late Latin colpus (“stroke; strike; hit”), from earlier Latin colaphus. Doublet of coup.

Noun

colpus (plural colpi)

1. (botany, palynology) A groove sometimes occurring on grains of pollen

Coordinate terms

• porus

Derived terms

• colpate
• colporate
• colporus
• colpus transversalis
• ectocolpus
• pseudocolpus

Latin

Noun

colpus m (genitive colpī); second declension (Late Latin)

1. Alternative form of colaphus (found in the Lex Salica)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	colpus	colpī
Genitive	colpī	colpōrum
Dative	colpō	colpīs
Accusative	colpum	colpōs
Ablative	colpō	colpīs
Vocative	colpe	colpī

Descendants

• Asturian: golpe, güelpe
• Catalan: cop, colp
• Corsican: colpu
• → English: colpus
• Franco-Provençal: côp
• Old French: colp
  • French: coup
    • → English: coup
• Friulian: colp
• Galician: golpe
• Italian: colpo
• Norman: co
• Old Occitan: colp
  • Occitan: còp
• Romansch: culp, cuolp
• Old Galician-Portuguese: colbe, golbe
  • Portuguese: golpe
• Sardinian: colpu, corfu, groffu (etc.)
• Sicilian: corpu
• Old Spanish: colpe, golpe
  • Spanish: golpe
• Venetian: colpo