colic

See also: còlic

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French colique. Ultimately derived from Ancient Greek κωλικός (kōlikós, “suffering in the colon”, adj).

Pronunciation

• enPR: kŏlĭk
• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒl.ɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɒlɪk

Noun

colic (countable and uncountable, plural colics)

1. (pathology) Severe pains that grip the abdomen or the disease that causes such pains (due to intestinal or bowel-related problems).
2. A medicinal plant used to relieve such symptoms.

Derived terms

• colicky

Translations

abdominal pain

• Arabic: مَغْص m (maḡṣ), قُولَنْج (qūlanj), قَوْلِنْج m (qawlinj)
• Bulgarian: ко́лика f (kólika), (usually plural) ко́лики f pl (kóliki)
• Catalan: còlic (ca) m
• Czech: kolika f
• Dutch: koliek (nl) f or n
• Finnish: koliikki (fi)
• French: colique (fr) f
• Galician: cólico m
• German: Kolik (de) f
• Icelandic: kveisa (is) f, magakveisa f
• Indonesian: kolik (id)
• Irish: aileacó m, coiliceam m, treighid f
• Italian: colica (it) f
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• Japanese: 疝気 (せんき, senki)
• Latin: tormina (la) n pl
• Maori: haku, kōngarangara, kōrangaranga, pohopiri
• Persian: کولنج (fa) (kolenj), قولنج (fa) (qolenj)
• Portuguese: cólica (pt) f
• Russian: ко́лика (ru) f (kólika), (usually plural) ко́лики (ru) f pl (kóliki), резь (ru) f (rezʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гр̏ч m, ко̀лике pl

  Roman: gȑč (sh) m, kòlike (sh) pl

• Spanish: cólico (es) m
• Tagalog: apad

Adjective

colic (not comparable)

1. Relating to the colon; colonic.

Translations

relating to the colon

• Finnish: paksusuoli-, paksusuolen
• French: colique (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: cólico
• Serbo-Croatian: količki