kols

See also: Kols and köls

Latvian
Kols

Etymology

Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Latin cōlon (“a member of a verse of poem”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek κῶλον (kôlon, “a member, limb, clause, part of a verse”).

Pronunciation
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Noun

kols m (1st declension)

  1. (orthography) colon (punctuation mark (:) usually indicating a longer pause)
    kols ir ne vien gramatiski, bet arī jēdzieniski nosacīta pieturzīme... tas arvien norāda uz sekojošu paskaidrojumu ― the colon is a punctuation mark conditioned not only grammatically, but also conceptually... it always points to a following explanation

Declension
Declension of kols (1st declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) kols koli
accusative (akuzatīvs) kolu kolus
genitive (ģenitīvs) kola kolu
dative (datīvs) kolam koliem
instrumental (instrumentālis) kolu koliem
locative (lokatīvs) kolā kolos
vocative (vokatīvs) kols koli

See also
Punctuation marks (pieturzīmes):
  • iekavas () [] {}
  • izsaukuma zīme ?
  • jautājuma zīme !
  • kols :

Swedish

Noun

kols

  1. indefinite genitive singular of kol
  2. indefinite genitive plural of kol
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