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

EnglishEdit

 
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Etymology 1Edit

From Latin cōlon (a member of a verse of poem), from Ancient Greek κῶλον (kôlon, a member, limb, clause, part of a verse).

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

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 2Edit

From Latin cŏlon (large intestine), from Ancient Greek κόλον (kólon, the large intestine, also food, meat, fodder).

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NounEdit

colon (plural colons or cola or coli)

  1. (anatomy) Part of the large intestine; the final segment of the digestive system, after (distal to) the ileum and before (proximal to) the rectum. (Because the colon is the largest part of the large intestine (constituting most of it), it is often treated as synonymous therewith in broad or casual usage.)
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Etymology 3Edit

From French colon.

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NounEdit

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 readingEdit

  1. ^ colon”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
  2. ^ colon”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

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AsturianEdit

NounEdit

colon m (plural cólones)

  1. (anatomy) colon (digestive system)

CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin colōnus.

NounEdit

colon m (plural colons, feminine colona)

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

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EsperantoEdit

NounEdit

colon

  1. accusative singular of colo

FrenchEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Learned borrowing from Latin colōnus.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

colon m (plural colons)

  1. colonist, colonizer
  2. settler (in a French colony)
    • 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.
  3. 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.
  4. sharecropper in the system of colonat partiaire
  5. (vulgar, Canada) hillbilly, hick
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Etymology 2Edit

See côlon.

NounEdit

colon

  1. Misspelling of côlon.

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Etymology 3Edit

Abbreviation of colonel.[1]

PronunciationEdit

  1. (military slang) colonel

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InterlinguaEdit

NounEdit

colon (uncountable)

  1. (anatomy) colon

ItalianEdit

 
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Etymology 1Edit

Unadapted borrowing from Latin colon, from Ancient Greek κόλον (kólon).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.lon/
  • Rhymes: -ɔlon
  • Syllabification: cò‧lon

NounEdit

colon m (invariable)

  1. (anatomy) colon (part of the body)
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Etymology 2Edit

Unadapted borrowing from Latin cōlon, from Ancient Greek κῶλον (kôlon).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.lon/
  • Rhymes: -ɔlon
  • Syllabification: cò‧lon

NounEdit

colon m (plural cola)

  1. colon (punctuation mark)

Etymology 3Edit

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish colón.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /koˈlɔn/
  • Rhymes: -ɔn
  • Syllabification: co‧lòn

NounEdit

colon m (plural colones)

  1. Alternative form of colón

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LatinEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Ancient Greek κόλον (kólon).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

colon n (genitive colī); second declension

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

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
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  • English: colon

Etymology 2Edit

From Ancient Greek κῶλον (kôlon).

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NounEdit

cōlon n (genitive cōlī); second declension

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

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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ReferencesEdit

  • 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

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French côlon.

NounEdit

colon m (plural coloni)

  1. colon

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SpanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈkolon/ [ˈko.lõn]
  • Rhymes: -olon
  • Syllabification: co‧lon

Etymology 1Edit

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

NounEdit

colon m (plural cólones)

  1. (grammar) colon (punctuation mark)

Etymology 2Edit

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

NounEdit

colon m (plural cólones)

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