colostra

English

Noun

colostra

1. plural of colostrum

Anagrams

• Locastro, crotalos, locators

Latin

Alternative forms

• colustra
• colostrum

Etymology

Of uncertain origin; proposed derivations include:

• From Proto-Indo-European *ḱwel-, common to Old English hwylca (“varix”), hwelian (“to suppurate”) and Lithuanian švelnùs (“soft, smooth”).
• From Proto-Indo-European *ḱewH- (“to swell”), thereby cognate with Latin cavus (“hollow”), Old Norse hváll (“round hill”) and Armenian շեղջ (šeġǰ, “heap, pile”).
• Assuming an earlier *corostra which underwent dissimilation, akin to Sanskrit शर (śara, “sour cream”) and शरस् (śáras, “film on cooked milk”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂os (“decay, rot > sour milk”), from the root *ḱerh₂- (“to break, decay”), thereby cognate also with Proto-Celtic *kerati (“to fall”), Ancient Greek κεραΐζω (keraḯzō, “to ravage, plunder”), and Sanskrit शृणाति (śṛṇā́ti, “to crush”).
• Related to colōr (“color”) (< *"cover"); however, this is semantically and morphologically difficult.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koˈlos.tra/, [kɔˈɫ̪ɔs̠t̪rä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈlos.tra/, [koˈlɔst̪rä]

Noun

colostra f (genitive colostrae); first declension
colostra n pl (genitive colostrōrum); second declension

1. colostrum, beestings
2. used as a term of endearment
3. a certain kind of fancy dish

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	colostra	colostrae
genitive	colostrae	colostrārum
dative	colostrae	colostrīs
accusative	colostram	colostrās
ablative	colostrā	colostrīs
vocative	colostra	colostrae

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

	plural
nominative	colostra
genitive	colostrōrum
dative	colostrīs
accusative	colostra
ablative	colostrīs
vocative	colostra

Descendants

• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: calostre
• Old Galician-Portuguese:
  • Galician: costro, costre, cuestro, quiostro
  • Portuguese: crosto
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: calostro
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: caiostre
• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: curastrã, culastrã
  • Romanian: colastră, coraslă, culastră, curastră, corastră
• → Albanian: qumësht
• → Albanian: kulloshtër
• → Czech: kolostrum
• → English: colostrum
• → French: colostrum
• → German: Kolostrum
• → Hungarian: kolosztrum
• → Italian: colostro
• → Occitan: colòstrum
• → Portuguese: colostro

Further reading

• “colostra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• colostra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.