colp

colp (plural colps)

1. Alternative form of collop

colp (plural colps)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Short for colposcopy.

• colp in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• CPOL, OLPC, clop, ploc

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔlp/

colp m (plural colps)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) Alternative form of cop

• colpejar
• colpisme
• colpista

• “colp” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “colp”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “colp” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “colp” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• cop
• coup

From Vulgar Latin *colpus, syncopated form of Latin colaphus, from Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kólaphos, “blow, smack”).

colp m (oblique plural cols, nominative singular cols, nominative plural colp)

1. strike; hit

• colper/coper

• French: coup
• Norman: co, coup
• Walloon: côp

From Vulgar Latin *colpus, syncopated form of Latin colaphus, from Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kólaphos, “blow, smack”).

colp m (oblique plural colps, nominative singular colps, nominative plural colp)

1. blow; strike; hit

• Occitan: còp

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “colaphus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 865