different between colt vs colp

English

Etymology

From Middle English colt, from Old English colt (“young donkey, young camel”), from Proto-Germanic *kultaz (“plump; stump; thick shape, bulb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“something round, pregnant belly, child in the womb”), from *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Faroese koltur (“colt, foal”) Norwegian kult (“treestump”), Swedish kult (“young boar, boy, lad”). Related to child.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??lt/, [k??lt], (also) /k?lt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ko?lt/
• Rhymes: -??lt

Noun

colt (plural colts)

1. A young male horse.

   Coordinate term: filly

2. A young crane (bird).
3. (figuratively) A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, I. ii. 38:

     Ay, that's a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but / talk of his horse, and he makes it a great appropriation to / his own good parts that he can shoe him himself.

   1. (cricket, slang) A professional cricketer during his first season.
      • 1882, The Downside Review (volume 1, page 287)

        The bowling is more promising in the colts than in the eleven.

4. (nautical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
5. (biblical) A young camel or donkey.

Derived terms

• colt's tooth

Translations

Verb

colt (third-person singular simple present colts, present participle colting, simple past and past participle colted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To horse; to get with young.
   • 1610, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Cymbeline, II. iv. 133:

     Never talk on't: / She hath been colted by him.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To befool.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, II. ii. 36:

     What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?

3. To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.

   • They shook off their bridles and began to colt.

Synonyms

• (to act licentiously or wantonly): See Thesaurus:harlotize

See also

• stallion, mare, foal, filly, horseling

Further reading

• colt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• colt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• TLOC, clot

French

Noun

colt m (plural colts)

1. Colt (gun)

Middle English

Alternative forms

• colte, cowlt

Etymology

From Old English colt, from Proto-Germanic *kultaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?lt/, /k??lt/

Noun

colt (plural coltes)

1. A juvenile equid or camel; a colt.
2. (derogatory, rare) A human child.

Descendants

• English: colt
• Scots: colt, cout, cowt
• Yola: caule, caul, kawle

References

• “colt, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-12.

English

Etymology 1

Noun

colp (plural colps)

1. Alternative form of collop

Etymology 2

Noun

colp (plural colps)

1. (medicine, colloquial) Short for colposcopy.

Further reading

• colp in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• CPOL, OLPC, clop, ploc

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?k?lp/

Noun

colp m (plural colps)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) Alternative form of cop

Derived terms

• colpejar
• colpisme
• colpista

Further reading

• “colp” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “colp” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “colp” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “colp” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Old French

Alternative forms

• cop
• coup

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *colpus, syncopated form of Latin colaphus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (kólaphos, “blow, smack”).

Noun

colp m (oblique plural cols, nominative singular cols, nominative plural colp)

1. strike; hit

Related terms

• colper/coper

Descendants

• French: coup
• Norman: co, coup
• Walloon: côp

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *colpus, syncopated form of Latin colaphus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (kólaphos, “blow, smack”).

Noun

colp m (oblique plural colps, nominative singular colps, nominative plural colp)

1. blow; strike; hit

Descendants

• Catalan: colp
• Occitan: còp

References

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928–2002) , “colaphus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 20, page 865