colure

== English == === Etymology === From Latin colurus, ultimately from Ancient Greek κόλουρος (kólouros, “truncated, dock-tailed”). === Noun === colure (plural colures) (astronomy) Either of two great circles (meridians) that intersect at the poles and either the equinoxes or solstices. ==== Derived terms ==== equinoctial colure solstitial colure === Anagrams === Lucero, ulcero- == French == === Etymology === From Latin colurus, ultimately from Ancient Greek κόλουρος (kólouros, “truncated, dock-tailed”). Compare English colure. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kɔ.lyʁ/ Homophone: colures === Noun === colure m (plural colures) (astronomy, geography) colure === Further reading === “colure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Yola == === Noun === colure alternative form of cooloor === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 116