colon

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See also: Colon, cólon, colón, còlon, côlon, and Colón

English

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Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin cōlon (“a member of a verse of poem”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek κῶλον (kôlon, “a member, limb, clause, part of a verse”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkəʊ.lən/, /ˈkəʊ.lɒn/
  • (US) enPR: kō'lən, IPA(key): /ˈkoʊ.lən/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -əʊlən

Noun

colon (plural colons or cola)

  1. The punctuation mark ":".
    • 2005, William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, The Elements of Style, Penguin Press, page 15:
      A colon tells the reader that what follows is closely related to the preceding clause.
  2. (rare) The triangular colon (especially in context of not being able to type the actual triangular colon).
  3. (rhetoric) A rhetorical figure consisting of a clause which is grammatically, but not logically, complete.
  4. (palaeography) A clause or group of clauses written as a line, or taken as a standard of measure in ancient manuscripts or texts.
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Punctuation

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin cŏlon (“large intestine”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek κόλον (kólon, “the large intestine, also food, meat, fodder”).

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Noun

colon (plural colons or cola)

  1. (anatomy) Part of the large intestine; the final segment of the digestive system, after (distal to) the ileum and before (proximal to) the anus.
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Etymology 3

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French colon.

Pronunciation

Noun

colon (plural colons)

  1. (obsolete) A husbandman.
  2. A European colonial settler, especially in a French colony.
    • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 28:
      The reaction of the European colons, a mixture of shock and fear, was to demand further draconian measures and to suspend any suggestion of new reforms.
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Further reading

  1. ^ “colon”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  2. ^ “colon”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

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Asturian

Noun

colon m (plural cólones)

  1. (anatomy) colon (digestive system)

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin colōnus.

Noun

colon m (plural colons, feminine colona)

  1. colonist, settler
  2. farmer during the Roman Empire

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Further reading

Esperanto

Noun

colon

  1. accusative singular of colo

French

FWOTD – 8 July 2017

Etymology 1

From Latin colōnus.

Pronunciation

Noun

colon m (plural colons)

  1. colonist, colonizer
    • Laurent Lamoine, Le Pouvoir locale en Gaule romaine, 2009, 240.
      Sous les auspices du dictateur A. Cornelius Cossus, les Romains viennent de remporter une victoire sur leurs voisins Volsques, Latins et Herniques, associés aux colons romains en rébellion de Circéi et Vélitrae.
  2. camper (child in a colonie de vacances)
    • José Casatéjada, Via Compostela: Des Monts du Velay à la Costa da Morte, 2015, 243.
      Une fois encore, ils me ramènant à mon enfance, aux colonies de vacances. Aves les autres petits colons, mes frères et moi trottions sur les chemins de traverse pour aller jouer dans les près ou à la rivière.
  3. sharecropper in the system of colonat partiaire

Etymology 2

See côlon.

Noun

colon

  1. Misspelling of côlon.

Further reading

Interlingua

Noun

colon (uncountable)

  1. (anatomy) colon

Italian

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Noun

colon m (uncountable)

  1. (anatomy) colon

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Latin

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek κόλον (kólon).

Pronunciation

Noun

colon n (genitive colī); second declension

  1. (anatomy) The colon; large intestine
  2. colic, a disease of the colon
Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative colon cola
Genitive colī colōrum
Dative colō colīs
Accusative colon cola
Ablative colō colīs
Vocative colon cola
Descendants
  • → English: colon

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek κῶλον (kôlon).

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Pronunciation

Noun

cōlon n (genitive cōlī); second declension

  1. a member or part of a verse of a poem
Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cōlon cōla
Genitive cōlī cōlōrum
Dative cōlō cōlīs
Accusative cōlon cōla
Ablative cōlō cōlīs
Vocative cōlon cōla
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Descendants

References

  • “colon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • colon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “colon”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkolon/ [ˈko.lõn]

Etymology 1

From Latin cōlon, from Ancient Greek κῶλον (kôlon).

Noun

colon m (plural cólones)

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Etymology 2

From Latin cŏlon, from Ancient Greek κόλον (kólon).

Noun

colon m (plural cólones)

  1. (anatomy) colon (part of the large intestine)

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Further reading

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