coleo

See also: coleó and coleo-

Latin

From cōleus +‎ -ō. Attested in the glossary quoted below, which was translated in Carolingian times from a Greek original.[1]

cōleō m (genitive cōleōnis); third declension (Early Medieval Latin)

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]

Third-declension noun.

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: coglione
- Sicilian: cugghiuni, cugliuni
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: cozone, colloni, calloni
North Italian:
- Friulian: coion
- Romansch: cugliun
- Venetian: cojon
Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: colló
- Old French: coillon (see there for further descendants)
- Occitan: colhon
Ibero-Romance:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: colhon
  - Galician: collón
  - Portuguese: colhão
- Spanish: cojón
  - →⇒ English: cojones (from the plural)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cōleō

Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1984), “cojón”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 131

Bücheler, Franz. 1907. Eine italische eine rheinische Thon-Inschrift. Bonner Jahrbücher 116. 298.
“2. culio”, in Thesaurus linguae Latinae, volume 4, 1909, page 1289
Georg Getz; Carl Gustav Löwe; Wilhelm C. Heraeus; Gotthold E. Gundermann (1888) Corpus glossariorum Latinorum: Glossae Latinograecae et Graecolatinae. Accedunt minora utriusque linguae glossaria‎, volume II, Leipzig: B. G. Teubner Verlag, page 579: “Famex spado contusis culionibus”

coleo

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