cohum

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *koɣom; related to Proto-Indo-European *kagʰyóm (“enclosure”).^[1] Doublet of caium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈko.hum/, [ˈko(ɦ)ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.um/, [ˈkɔːum]

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

Related terms

• incohō

References

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
• “cohum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "cohum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s 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.

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