colure

English

Etymology

From Latin colurus, ultimately from Ancient Greek κόλουρος (kólouros, truncated, dock-tailed).

Noun

colure (plural colures)

  1. (astronomy) Either of two great circles (meridians) that intersect at the poles and either the equinoxes or solstices.

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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

Noun

colure m (plural colures)

  1. (astronomy, geography) colure

Further reading

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Noun

colure

  1. 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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