colostra

colostra

1. plural of colostrum

• Locastro, crotalos, locators

• colustra
• colostrum

Of uncertain origin[1]; proposed derivations include:

• From Proto-Indo-European *kwel-, common to Old English hwylca (“varix”), hwelian (“to suppurate”) and Lithuanian švelnùs (“soft, smooth”).
• From Proto-Indo-European *ḱewH- (“to swell”). Cognates include Latin cavus (“hollow”), Old Norse hvāll (“round hill”) and Armenian շեղջ (šełǰ, “heap, pile”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /koˈlos.tra/, [kɔˈɫɔs.tra]

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

1. colostrum, beestings

First declension.

Second declension.

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

• 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