different between soleus vs coleus

English

Etymology

Clipping of translingual Musculus soleus, a relative adjective to Latin solum.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s???li?.?s/, /s??li?.?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?so?.li.?s/
• Hyphenation: so?le?us

Noun

soleus (plural solei)

1. A broad, flat muscle that extends behind the gastrocnemius along the back of the calf.

Translations

Anagrams

• Soules, louses, ousels, soules

English

Etymology

From the former genus name Coleus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (koleós, “a sheath”), referring to the manner in which the stamens are united.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??.li.?s/

Noun

coleus (plural coleuses)

1. A plant in the mint family, Plectranthus scutellarioides (formerly known as Coleus blumei and Solenostemon scutellarioides), cultivated for its bright-colored or variegated leaves.
2. Any other plant formerly classified in the genus Coleus, which is now considered to be a synonym of Plectranthus

Translations

Anagrams

• Clouse, Coules, coulés, oscule

Latin

Alternative forms

• c?leus
• culleus
• culi?/*c?le? (Vulgar Latin)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (koleós, “a sheath”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ko?.le.us/, [?ko???e?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ko.le.us/, [?k??l?us]

Noun

c?leus m (genitive c?le?); second declension

1. sack (bag for liquids or grains)
2. (in the plural, vulgar) scrotum, testicles

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

• Vulgar Latin: *c?le?
  • Aromanian: colj, coljiu
  • Old Occitan: coil
    • Occitan: colh
  • Romanian: coi
  • ? Vulgar Latin: *c?lea f
    • Aromanian: coalji pl
    • Corsican: cuglia
    • Italian: coglia
    • Old French: coille
      • Middle French: couille
        • French: couille
      • Walloon: coye
      • ? Middle Dutch: cul
        • Dutch: kul
    • Old Occitan:
      • Occitan: colha
    • Romanian: coaie pl
    • Sicilian: cogghia
  • ? Vulgar Latin: *c?le?nem (accusative singular)
    • Friulian: coion
    • Italian: coglione
    • Old French: coillon
      • Middle French: couillon
        • French: couillon
          • ? Alemannic German: Gajung
      • ? Middle English: coilon
        • English: cullion
    • Old Occitan:
      • Catalan: colló
      • Occitan: colhon
    • Old Portuguese:
      • Galician: collón
      • Portuguese: colhão
    • Old Spanish:
      • Spanish: cojón
        • ? English: cojones (from cojones pl)
    • Sardinian: calloni
    • Sicilian: cugghiuni, cugliuni
    • Venetian: cojon
  • ? Vulgar Latin: *cole?tus
    • Old Occitan:
      • Catalan: collut
      • Occitan: colhut
    • Old Portuguese:
      • Galician: colludo
      • Portuguese: colhudo
    • Old Spanish:
      • Spanish: cojudo
    • Sardinian: cozudu
• ? Breton: kell
• ? Cornish: kell
• ? Welsh: caill

References

• coleus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• coleus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette