coleo

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See also: coleó and coleo-

Latin

Etymology 1

From cōleus +‎ . Attested in the glossary quoted below, which was translated in Carolingian times from a Greek original.[1]

Noun

cōleō m (genitive cōleōnis); third declension (Early Medieval Latin)

  1. testicle
    • c. 8th century C.E., “famex” in Glossae nominum[2][3]
      Famex spado contusis culionibus
      A famex is a eunuch who has had his balls crushed
Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative coleō coleōnēs
genitive coleōnis coleōnum
dative coleōnī coleōnibus
accusative coleōnem coleōnēs
ablative coleōne coleōnibus
vocative coleō coleōnēs
Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

cōleō

  1. dative/ablative singular of cōleus

References

  1. ^ Bücheler, Franz. 1907. Eine italische eine rheinische Thon-Inschrift. Bonner Jahrbücher 116. 298.
  2. ^ “2. culio”, in Thesaurus linguae Latinae, volume 4, 1909, page 1289
  3. ^ Georg Getz, Carl Gustav Löwe, Wilhelm C. Heraeus, Gotthold E. Gundermann (1888) Corpus glossariorum Latinorum: Glossae Latinograecae et Graecolatinae. Accedunt minora utriusque linguae glossaria, volume II, Leipzig: B. G. Teubner Verlag, page 579:Famex spado contusis culionibus

Spanish

Verb

coleo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of colear