colure
English
Etymology
From Latin colurus, ultimately from Ancient Greek κόλουρος (kólouros, “truncated, dock-tailed”).
Noun
colure (plural colures)
Coordinate terms
French
Etymology
From Latin colurus, ultimately from Ancient Greek κόλουρος (kólouros, “truncated, dock-tailed”). Compare English colure.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ.lyʁ/
(file) - Homophone: colures
Further reading
- “colure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Yola
Noun
colure
- Alternative form of cooloor
- 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 8-9:
- wee hert ee zough o'ye colure o' pace na name o' Mulgrave.
- we heard the distant sound of the wings of the dove of peace, in the word Mulgrave.
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 116
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