colt

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A young male horse.
2. A young crane (bird).
3. (figuratively) A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
4. (figuratively, slang) A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
5. (figuratively, obsolete, slang) A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
6. (historical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
7. (obsolete, slang) A weapon formed by slinging a small shot to the end of a somewhat stiff piece of rope.
8. A young camel or donkey.

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To horse; to get with young.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To befool.
3. (intransitive) To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly.
4. (obsolete, slang, transitive) 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.

Concepts

poulain

colt

jeunot

petit cheval

type de revolver

Synonymes

foal

filly

horse

🐴

pony

yearling

steed

young male horse

cub

mare

mustang

stallion

Equus caballus

young of any animal

calf

wanton

green hand

wild stallion

Traductions

potro

puledro

Fohlen

veulen

potro

poltre

potranco

πουλάρι

tay

equuleus

hengstveulen

potrillo

Hengstfohlen

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/kəʊlt/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: colt

Hérité de ancien anglais: colt

Appartenant à féroïen: koltur

Appartenant à norvégien: kult

Appartenant à suédois: kult

In summary

From Middle English colt, from Old English colt, from Proto-Germanic *kultaz (“plump; stump; thick shape, bulb”), from Proto-Indo-European *gelt- (“something round, pregnant belly, child in the womb”), from *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Faroese koltur (“colt, foal”) Norwegian kult (“treestump”), Swedish kult (“young boar, boy, lad”). Related to child.