From en.wiktionary.org:
[Colt]
** English
*** Etymology
From [en], from [en], from [en], from [en], from [ine-pro]. Cognate with [fo]
[no], [sv]. Related to [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. A young male horse .
2. * [en]
3. A young crane (bird).
4. [en] A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice .
5. * [I]
1. [en] A professional cricketer during his first season .
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1882 | title=The Downside Review | volume=1 | page=287
|passage=The bowling is more promising in the COLTS than in the eleven.}}
1. [en] A person who sits as a juryman for the first time.
1. [en] A short piece of rope once used by petty officer s as an instrument of punishment.
2. [en] A weapon formed by slinging a small shot to the end of a somewhat stiff piece of rope.
3. [en] A young camel or donkey .
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[young male horse]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek:
- Ido: [io]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Latgalian: [ltg]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maltese: [mt] , [mt]
- Megleno-Romanian: [ruq]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Navajo: [nv]
- North Frisian: [frr] [Sylt]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Punjabi: [pa]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] [colt of filly] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [gd] , [gd] , [gd] , [gd] , [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] [archaic]
- Taos: [twf]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Volapük: [vo] , [vo] , [vo]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Wolof: [wo]
- Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[novice]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- French: [fr]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
[trans-bottom]
[rope]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
**** References
- [weapon] [en]
*** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To horse ; to get with young .
2. * [II]
3. [en] To befool .
4. * [II]
5. [en] To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
6. * [text=They shook off their bridles and began to COLT .]
7. [en] To haze (a new recruit ), as by charging a new juryman a " fine " to be spent on alcoholic drink, or by striking the sole of his foot with a board, etc.
8. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=1849 | journal=The Lancet | page=53
|passage=We watched our opportunity, seized him, and, laying him across a
chest, we COLTED him with a boot-jack until we nearly killed him, he at the
time suffering from numerous boils in the nates; and for all this he obtained
no redress!}}
1. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=1923 | journal=Notes and Queries | page=153
|passage=[...] his first appearance the jury duly " COLTED" him.}}
**** Synonyms
- [to act licentiously or wantonly] See Thesaurus:harlotize
*** See also
- [en] , [en] , [en] , [en] , [en]
*** References
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [to haze] [en]
*** Further reading
- [pedia]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** French
*** Noun
[m]
1. Colt (gun)
*** Further reading
- [R:fr:TLFi]
** Middle English
*** Alternative forms
- [enm]
*** Etymology
From [enm], from [enm].
*** Pronunciation
- [enm]
*** Noun
[coltes]
1. A juvenile equid or camel ; a [en] .
2. [enm] A human child .
**** Descendants
- [en]
- [sco]
- [yol]
**** References
- [entry=colt]
[enm]
** Old English
*** Etymology
From [ang], from [ang], from [ine-pro].
*** Noun
[m]
1. colt [a juvenile horse]
**** Declension
[colt]
**** Descendants
- [enm]
[ang]
** Spanish
*** Etymology
[es], [es]. First attested in late 19th c.
*** Pronunciation
[es-pr]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [es] Colt [a revolver] [from late 19th c.]
*** Further reading
- [R:es:DRAE]
- [R:es:DHLE]