coli
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Ellipsis of Bacterium coli or Bacillus coli, obsolete taxonomic names of the species (now called Escherichia coli). The word itself derives from Latin colī, genitive of colon (“colon, large intestine”).
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coli (plural coli)
- (often attributive, bacteriology) Escherichia coli, a Gram-negative bacterium commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms.
- Synonym: colibacillus
- 1939 January, Thomas T. Mackie, “The Specificity of the Agglutinin Reaction for Shigella dysenteriae: II. Agglutinin Absorption Relationships between Shigella dysenteriae and Escherichia coli”, in Journal of Bacteriology[1], volume 37, number 1, →PMID, archived from the original on 10 June 2020, page 47:
- Five of the strains of E. coli are related to only one of the S. dysenteriae strains. Three of the coli are related to two of the strains of S. dysenteriae, four are related to three of the S. dysenteriae strains, and one, A-H6, is related to all.
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Escherichia coli
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coli
- inflection of colar:
Indonesian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Javanese ngocok + Javanese peli. Equivalent to blend of mengocok + pelir.
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coli
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coli
- (slang) to masturbate
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From Malay coli, culi, probably from Hindi चोली (colī).
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coli
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Etymology 3 edit
From Alas-Kluet Batak coli.
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coli
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- “coli” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
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coli
- inflection of colare:
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- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkoː.liː/, [ˈkoːlʲiː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈko.li/, [ˈkɔːli]
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cōlī n
Etymology 2 edit
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- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkoː.liː/, [ˈkoːlʲiː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈko.li/, [ˈkɔːli]
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cōlī n
- genitive singular of cōlum (“colon (member or part of a verse or poem)”)
- genitive singular of cōlon (“colon (member or part of a verse or poem)”)
Etymology 3 edit
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- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈko.liː/, [ˈkɔlʲiː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈko.li/, [ˈkɔːli]
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colī n
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- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈko.liː/, [ˈkɔlʲiː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈko.li/, [ˈkɔːli]
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colī
Malay edit
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Probably from Hindi चोली (colī).
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- Rhymes: -i
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coli (Jawi spelling چولي, plural coli-coli, informal 1st possessive coliku, 2nd possessive colimu, 3rd possessive colinya)
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- Indonesian: coli
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