colostra

English

Noun

colostra

  1. plural of colostrum

Anagrams

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Of uncertain origin;[1] 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”).[2]
  • Related to colōr (“color”) (< *"cover"); however, this is semantically and morphologically difficult.[3]

Pronunciation

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:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Galician: costro, costre, cuestro, quiostro
    • Portuguese: crosto
  • Old Spanish:
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Eastern Romance:
  • → Albanian: qumësht
  • → Albanian: kulloshtër
  • → Czech: kolostrum
  • → English: colostrum
  • → French: colostrum
  • → German: Kolostrum
  • → Hungarian: kolosztrum
  • → Italian: colostro
  • → Occitan: colòstrum
  • → Portuguese: colostro

References

  1. ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “colostra”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 247
  2. ^ Frisk, Hjalmar (1960–1972) “πῡός 2.”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter
  3. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “colustra”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 128

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.
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