colaphus

Latin

Alternative forms

• colaphos, colafus, colophus, culapus, colpus

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kólaphos).

Noun

colaphus m (genitive colaphī); second declension

1. a blow with the fist; cuff

   Synonyms: pulsus, ictus, plāga

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	colaphus	colaphī
genitive	colaphī	colaphōrum
dative	colaphō	colaphīs
accusative	colaphum	colaphōs
ablative	colaphō	colaphīs
vocative	colaphe	colaphī

Descendants

See the Late variant colpus.

References

• “colaphus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “colaphus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "colaphus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “colaphus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.