colure

English

Etymology

From Latin colurus, ultimately from Ancient Greek κόλουρος (kólouros, “truncated, dock-tailed”).

Noun

colure (plural colures)

1. (astronomy) Either of two great circles (meridians) that intersect at the poles and either the equinoxes or solstices.

Coordinate terms

• equinoctial colure
• solstitial colure

Anagrams

• Lucero, ulcero-

French

Etymology

From Latin colurus, ultimately from Ancient Greek κόλουρος (kólouros, “truncated, dock-tailed”). Compare English colure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.lyʁ/

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• Homophone: colures

Noun

colure m (plural colures)

1. (astronomy, geography) colure

Further reading

• “colure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Yola

Noun

colure

1. Alternative form of cooloor
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 8-9:

     wee hert ee zough o'ye colure o' pace na name o' Mulgrave.

     we heard the distant sound of the wings of the dove of peace, in the word Mulgrave.

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 116