The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκόλπος“hollow space, pocket”
- Late Latin · derived fromcolpus“hollow space, pocket”
- English todaycolpus
From Late Latin colpus (“hollow space, pocket”), from Ancient Greek κόλπος (kólpos, “hollow space, pocket”).
Words from the same roots
Late Latincolpus all →
coup
Ancient Greekκόλπος all →
gulfaerocolposcolpo-colpocleisis
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.