colostra
Latin
Alternative forms
- colustra
- colostrum
Etymology
Of uncertain origin;[1] proposed derivations include:
- From Proto-Indo-European *ḱwel-, common to Old English hwylca (“varix”), hwelian (“to suppurate”) and Lithuanian švelnùs (“soft, smooth”).
- From Proto-Indo-European *ḱewH- (“to swell”), thereby cognate with Latin cavus (“hollow”), Old Norse hváll (“round hill”) and Armenian շեղջ (šeġǰ, “heap, pile”).
- Assuming an earlier *corostra which underwent dissimilation, akin to Sanskrit शर (śara, “sour cream”) and शरस् (śáras, “film on cooked milk”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂os (“decay, rot > sour milk”), from the root *ḱerh₂- (“to break, decay”), thereby cognate also with Proto-Celtic *kerati (“to fall”), Ancient Greek κεραΐζω (keraḯzō, “to ravage, plunder”), and Sanskrit शृणाति (śṛṇā́ti, “to crush”).[2]
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /koˈlos.tra/, [kɔˈɫ̪ɔs̠t̪rä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /koˈlos.tra/, [koˈlɔst̪rä]
Noun
colostra f (genitive colostrae); first declension
colostra n pl (genitive colostrōrum); second declension
- colostrum, beestings
- used as a term of endearment
- a certain kind of fancy dish
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | colostra | colostrae |
Genitive | colostrae | colostrārum |
Dative | colostrae | colostrīs |
Accusative | colostram | colostrās |
Ablative | colostrā | colostrīs |
Vocative | colostra | colostrae |
Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.
Case | Plural |
---|---|
Nominative | colostra |
Genitive | colostrōrum |
Dative | colostrīs |
Accusative | colostra |
Ablative | colostrīs |
Vocative | colostra |
Descendants
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: calostre
- Old Galician-Portuguese:
- Old Spanish:
- Spanish: calostro
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: caiostre
- Eastern Romance:
- → Albanian: qumësht
- → Albanian: kulloshtër
- → Czech: kolostrum
- → English: colostrum
- → French: colostrum
- → German: Kolostrum
- → Hungarian: kolosztrum
- → Italian: colostro
- → Occitan: colòstrum
- → Portuguese: colostro
References
- “colostra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- colostra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “colostra”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 247
- Frisk, Hjalmar (1960–1972) “πῡός 2.”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter
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