colze

Meaning

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

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈkol.zə]

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.