coleo

See also: coleó and coleo-

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)

  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[sic]
Descendants
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: coglione
    • Sicilian: cugghiuni, cugliuni
  • Insular Romance:
  • North Italian:
    • Venetian: cojon
    • Rhaeto-Romance:
      • Friulian: coion
      • Romansch: cugliun
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Old French: coillon (see there for further descendants)
  • Occitano-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:

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 Goetz; Gustav Löwe (1888) Corpus glossariorum Latinorum (in Latin), volume II, page 579, lines 46–47

Spanish

Verb

coleo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of colear
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