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.

Noun

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

1. testicle
   • c. 8th century C.E., “famex” in Glossae nominum^[2]

     Famex spado contusis culionibus

     A famex is a eunuch who has had his balls crushed^[sic]

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	coleō	coleōnēs
genitive	coleōnis	coleōnum
dative	coleōnī	coleōnibus
accusative	coleōnem	coleōnēs
ablative	coleōne	coleōnibus
vocative	coleō	coleōnēs

Related terms

• *cōleūtus

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: coglione
  • Sicilian: cugghiuni, cugliuni
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: cozone, colloni, calloni (Campidanese)
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: coion
  • Romansch: cugliun
  • Venetan: 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)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

cōleō

1. dative/ablative singular of cōleus

References

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

Spanish

Verb

coleo

1. first-person singular present indicative of colear