colostra

== English == === Noun === colostra plural of colostrum === Anagrams === Locastro, locators == Latin == === Alternative forms === colustra colostrum === Etymology === Of uncertain origin; proposed derivations include: From Proto-Indo-European *ḱwel-, common to Old English hwylca (“varix”), hwelian (“to suppurate”) and Lithuanian švelnùs (“soft, smooth”). From Proto-Indo-European *ḱewH- (“to swell”), thereby cognate with Latin cavus (“hollow”), Old Norse hváll (“round hill”) and Armenian շեղջ (šeġǰ, “heap, pile”). Assuming an earlier *corostra which underwent dissimilation, akin to Sanskrit शर (śara, “sour cream”) and शरस् (śáras, “film on cooked milk”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂os (“decay, rot > sour milk”), from the root *ḱerh₂- (“to break, decay”), thereby cognate also with Proto-Celtic *kerati (“to fall”), Ancient Greek κεραΐζω (keraḯzō, “to ravage, plunder”), and Sanskrit शृणाति (śṛṇā́ti, “to crush”). Related to colōr (“color”) (< *"cover"); however, this is semantically and morphologically difficult. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔˈɫɔs.tra] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [koˈlɔs.tra] === Noun === colostra f (genitive colostrae); first declension colostra n pl (genitive colostrōrum); second declension colostrum, beestings used as a term of endearment a certain kind of fancy dish ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only. ==== Descendants ==== Aragonese: cullestro, coliestro, culdiestro, culiestro, culluestro Balkan Romance: Aromanian: curastrã, culastrã Megleno-Romanian: gulastră Romanian: colastră, coraslă, culastră, curastră, corastră Old Leonese: Asturian: culiestros Old Occitan: Catalan: calostre Old Galician-Portuguese: Galician: costro, costre, cuestro, quiostro Portuguese: crosto Old Spanish: Spanish: calostro Rhaeto-Romance: Friulian: caiostre → Albanian: qumësht → Albanian: kulloshtër → Czech: kolostrum → English: colostrum → French: colostrum → German: Kolostrum → Hungarian: kolosztrum → Italian: colostro → Occitan: colòstrum → Portuguese: colostro === References === === Further reading === “colostra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “colostra”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.