colon

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊlən/, /ˈkəʊlɒn/
• (US) enPR: kōl'ən, IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊlən/

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• Rhymes: -əʊlən

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

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.

• (punctuation mark): colon-point (obsolete)

• colon-point

• Wikipedia article on colons (in punctuation)
• Wikipedia article on the colon (in anatomy)

Punctuation

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

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

• (final segment of digestive system): large bowel

• (segment of digestive system): large intestine

• colectomy
• colic
• colitis
• colonic
• colonitis
• colostomy
• colonic irrigation

• bowel
• large intestine
• rectum

From French colon.

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.

• https://web.archive.org/web/20050326041700/http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/C/colon.htm Part of a glossary of classical rhetorical terms.
• colon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• colon in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• colon at OneLook Dictionary Search

• Locon, locon, lonco

colon m (plural cólones)

1. (anatomy) colon (digestive system)

From Latin colōnus.

colon m (plural colons, feminine colona)

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

• colònia

• “colon” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

colon

1. accusative singular of colo

From Latin colōnus.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.lɔ̃/

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

See côlon.

colon

1. Misspelling of côlon.

• “colon” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

colon (uncountable)

1. (anatomy) colon

colon m (invariable)

1. (anatomy) colon

• colectomia
• colite
• colon ascendente
• colon discendente
• colon sigmoideo
• colon trasverso
• colonscopia
• colostomia
• sindrome del colon irritabile

• clono, clonò

From Ancient Greek κόλον (kólon).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.lon/, [ˈkɔ.ɫɔn]

colon n (genitive colī); second declension

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

Second declension, Greek type.

• → English: colon

From Ancient Greek κῶλον (kôlon).

• cōlum
• cōlus

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.lon/, [ˈkoː.ɫɔn]

cōlon n (genitive cōlī); second declension

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

Second declension, Greek type.

• (member of a verse): membrum

• → English: colon

• 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkolon/, [ˈkolõn]

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

colon m (plural cólones)

1. (grammar) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

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

colon m (plural cólones)

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

• colonoscopia, colonoscopía
• colonoscopio
• megacolon
• mesocolon

• “colon” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.