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Latin
Etymology 1
From cōleus + -ō. 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)
- 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.
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
cōleō
- dative/ablative singular of cōleus
References
- ^ Bücheler, Franz. 1907. Eine italische eine rheinische Thon-Inschrift. Bonner Jahrbücher 116. 298.
- ^ “2. culio”, in Thesaurus linguae Latinae, volume 4, 1909, page 1289
- ^ 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
- first-person singular present indicative of colear