colhão

== Portuguese == === Etymology 1 === Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese colhon, from Late Latin cōleōnem, from Latin cōleus (“sack, scrotum”). Cognate with Galician collón, Spanish cojón, Catalan colló. ==== Alternative forms ==== culhão (proscribed) quilhão (Northern Portugal) ==== Pronunciation ==== Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃ Hyphenation: co‧lhão ==== Noun ==== colhão m (plural colhões) (vulgar, usually in the plural) bollock, ball (a testicle) (informal, figurative, in the plural) balls (courage) ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 2 === See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form. ==== Verb ==== colhão obsolete spelling of colham === Further reading === “colhão”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “colhão”, in Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisboa: Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, 2001–2026 “colhão”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026 “colhão”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN “colhão”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026