Alternative forms

• colaphos, colafus, colophus, culapus, colpus

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient GreekCategory:Latin terms borrowed from Ancient Greek#COLAPHUSCategory:Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek#COLAPHUS κόλαφος (kólaphos).

Noun

colaphus m (genitive colaphī)Category:Latin lemmas#COLAPHUSCategory:Latin nouns#COLAPHUSCategory:Latin second declension nouns#COLAPHUSCategory:Latin masculine nouns in the second declension#COLAPHUSCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#COLAPHUSCategory:Latin masculine nouns#COLAPHUSCategory:Pages with entries#COLAPHUSCategory:Pages with 1 entry#COLAPHUS; second declension

1. a blow with the fist; cuff

   Synonyms: pulsus, ictus, plāga

References

• “colaphus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “colaphus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "colaphus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “colaphus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.