different between gelding vs colt

English

Etymology

From Middle English geldyng, geldynge, from Old Norse geldingr (“wether, eunuch”), from gelda (“to castrate”), equivalent to geld (“to castrate”) +? -ing (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ld??/
• Rhymes: -?ld??

Noun

gelding (plural geldings)

1. A castrated male horse.
2. Any castrated male animal.
3. (archaic) A eunuch.
   • 1382–1395, John Wycliffe et al. (translators), Acts viii. 38

     They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him.

Translations

Verb

gelding

1. present participle of geld

Anagrams

• Gedling, gingled, ledging, niggled

Icelandic

Etymology

From gelda (“to geld, to castrate”) +? -ing (“-ing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?c?lti?k/
• Rhymes: -?lti?k

Noun

gelding f (genitive singular geldingar, nominative plural geldingar)

1. castration, gelding

Declension

Related terms

• gelda (“to geld, to castrate”)
• geldingur (“gelding, wether”)

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.