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colze

Pronunciation: [ˈkul.zə]

“colze” is a Catalan word. Its 4 meanings in English:

noun

  1. elbow
  2. cubit, an informal unit of length based on the distance of a forearm and hand
  3. codo, Spanish cubit, a traditional unit of length equivalent to about 41.6 cm
  4. dogleg

In Catalan

  1. Articulació del braç.
  2. Unitat de longitud que, generalment es calcula mesurant de la punta del dit del cor fins a l’articulació del braç.
  3. Revolt relativament pronunciat d'un carrer.

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan colde, from pre-literary *coude (with hypercorrection of coda [w] to [ɫ]), from Latin cubitum. Compare the development of Catalan malalt, delme from original malaute, deume (Latin male habitus, decimus). The subsequent change from /d/ to /(d)z/ may have been by analogy with polze (“thumb”). Doublet of cúbit, a borrowing from Latin.

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