colurus

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κόλουρος (kólouros, “dock-tailed, truncated”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koˈluː.rus/, [kɔˈɫ̪uːrʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈlu.rus/, [koˈluːrus]

Adjective

colūrus (feminine colūra, neuter colūrum); first/second-declension adjective

1. truncated, too short, mutilated, maimed, mangled

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	colūrus	colūra	colūrum		colūrī	colūrae	colūra
genitive	colūrī	colūrae	colūrī		colūrōrum	colūrārum	colūrōrum
dative	colūrō		colūrō		colūrīs
accusative	colūrum	colūram	colūrum		colūrōs	colūrās	colūra
ablative	colūrō	colūrā	colūrō		colūrīs
vocative	colūre	colūra	colūrum		colūrī	colūrae	colūra

Synonyms

• mutilus

Related terms

• colūrī

Noun

colūrus m (genitive colūrī); second declension

1. colure

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	colūrus	colūrī
genitive	colūrī	colūrōrum
dative	colūrō	colūrīs
accusative	colūrum	colūrōs
ablative	colūrō	colūrīs
vocative	colūre	colūrī

References

• “colurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press