colaphus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === colaphos, colafus, colophus, culapus, colpus === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kólaphos). === Noun === colaphus m (genitive colaphī); second declension a blow with the fist; cuff Synonyms: vulnus, ictus, plāga ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== (Note: see the Late variant colpus.) === References === “colaphus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “colaphus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "colaphus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “colaphus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.