cohum

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Within Italic, it is perhaps to be connected with Umbrian cehefi (“to take, get”) and Oscan kahad (“to take”), though De Vaan suggests that such a relationship is only possible if a phonotactically impermissible Proto-Indo-European root *kh₂gʰ- is reconstructed. It is perhaps to be connected to Proto-Indo-European *kagʰ- (“to hold”) and is probably ultimately of substrate origin.[1] Doublet of caium.

Pronunciation

Noun

cohum n (genitive cohī); second declension

  1. The thong or strap used to attach a pole to a yoke

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative cohum coha
genitive cohī cohōrum
dative cohō cohīs
accusative cohum coha
ablative cohō cohīs
vocative cohum coha

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “cohum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 123–124
  • “cohum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "cohum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • “cohum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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