coleus

English

Etymology

From the genus name translingual Coleus, from Latin coleus, from Ancient Greek κολεός (koleós, “sheath”) in reference to the manner in which the stamens are united.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊ.li.əs/

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Noun

coleus (plural coleuses)

1. Any of certain plants in the mint family, many used as ornamentals for their colorful, variegated leaves, sometime included in genus Plectranthus (spurflowers), sometimes in their own genus Coleus,
   1. especially, Plectranthus scutellarioides, also known as Coleus scutellarioides and Coleus blumei.

Translations

References

• “coleus”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Coleus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Coleus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Coleus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Coleus at Plants of the World Online

Anagrams

• Clouse, Coules, coulés, oscule

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly akin to cūleus, culleus (“sack”); caulis, cōlis (“stalk”); or cōlum (“sieve”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.le.us/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.le.us/,

Noun

cōleus m (genitive cōleī); second declension

1. (vulgar, in the plural) sack (scrotum or testicles)
2. (figurative) courage
   • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 44.14:

     Sed si nos coleos haberemus, non tantum sibi placeret.

     But if we had the balls, he'd not be so pleased with himself!

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• cōleātus
• cōleō
• *cōleum n
• *cōleūtus

References

• “culleus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• coleus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.