different between colon vs gut

English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??.l?n/, /?k??.l?n/
• (US) enPR: k?'l?n, IPA^(key): /?ko?.l?n/
• Rhymes: -??l?n

Noun

colon (plural colons or cola)

1. The punctuation mark ":".
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.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• colon-point

Translations

See also

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

Punctuation

Etymology 2

From Latin c?lon (“large intestine”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kólon, “the large intestine, also food, meat, fodder”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??.l?n/, /?k??.l?n/
• (US) enPR: k?'l?n, IPA^(key): /?ko?l?n/
• Rhymes: -??l?n

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 rectum.

Synonyms

• (final segment of digestive system): large bowel

Holonyms

• (segment of digestive system): large intestine

Derived terms

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

Translations

See also

• bowel
• large intestine
• rectum

Etymology 3

From French colon.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??l?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k??lo?n/, /ko?.lo?n/

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.

Alternative forms

• colone

Further reading

• 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

Anagrams

• Locon, locon, lonco

Asturian

Noun

colon m (plural cólones)

1. (anatomy) colon (digestive system)

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin col?nus.

Noun

colon m (plural colons, feminine colona)

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

Related terms

• colònia

Further reading

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

Esperanto

Noun

colon

1. accusative singular of colo

French

Etymology 1

From Latin col?nus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.l??/

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

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

Interlingua

Noun

colon (uncountable)

1. (anatomy) colon

Italian

Noun

colon m (invariable)

1. (anatomy) colon

Derived terms

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

Anagrams

• clono, clonò

Latin

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ????? (kólon).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ko.lon/, [?k????n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ko.lon/, [?k??l?n]

Noun

colon n (genitive col?); second declension

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

Declension

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

Descendants

• ? English: colon

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ????? (kôlon).

Alternative forms

• c?lum
• c?lus

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ko?.lon/, [?ko????n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ko.lon/, [?k??l?n]

Noun

c?lon n (genitive c?l?); second declension

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

Declension

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

Synonyms

• (member of a verse): membrum

Descendants

• ? English: colon

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

Romanian

Etymology

From French côlon

Noun

colon m (plural coloni)

1. colon

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kolon/, [?ko.lõn]

Etymology 1

From Latin c?lon, from Ancient Greek ????? (kôlon).

Noun

colon m (plural cólones)

1. (grammar) colon (punctuation mark)

Etymology 2

From Latin c?lon, from Ancient Greek ????? (kólon).

Noun

colon m (plural cólones)

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

Derived terms

• colonoscopia, colonoscopía
• colonoscopio
• megacolon
• mesocolon

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English gut, gutte, gotte, from Old English gutt (usually in plural guttas (“guts, entrails”)), from Proto-Germanic *gut-, from Proto-Indo-European *??ewd- (“to pour”). Related to English gote (“drain”), Old English ??otan (“to pour”). More at gote, yote.

The verb is from Middle English gutten, gotten (“to gut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t/
• (Inland Northern American)
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

gut (countable and uncountable, plural guts)

1. The alimentary canal, especially the intestine.
2. (informal) The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged

3. (uncountable) The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc.
4. A person's emotional, visceral self.

5. (informal) A class that is not demanding or challenging.

6. A narrow passage of water.

7. The sac of silk taken from a silkworm when ready to spin its cocoon, for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. When dry, it is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fishing line.

Synonyms

• (alimentary canal, intestine): alimentary canal, digestive system, guts, intestine, tharm, innards
• (abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged): abdomen, beer belly, (enlarged), beer gut (UK, enlarged), belly, paunch (enlarged), potbelly (enlarged), stomach, tum, tummy
• (intestines of an animal used to make strings): catgut

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

gut (third-person singular simple present guts, present participle gutting, simple past and past participle gutted)

1. (transitive) To eviscerate.

2. (transitive) To remove or destroy the most important parts of.

Translations

Adjective

gut (comparative more gut, superlative most gut)

1. Made of gut.

2. Instinctive.

Related terms

• blood-and-guts

Translations

Anagrams

• UTG, tug

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• got (northern Moselle Franconian)
• jot (Ripuarian)

Etymology

From Old High German guod, northern variant of guot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?t/

Adjective

gut (masculine gude, feminine gut, comparative besser, superlative et beste)

1. (southern Moselle Franconian) good

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ut/, [??ud?]

Etymology 1

From Norwegian gutt.

Noun

gut c (singular definite gutten, plural indefinite gutter)

1. boy, lad, bloke

Inflection

Etymology 2

From English gut.

Noun

gut c (singular definite gutten, not used in plural form)

1. gut (intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc)

Dutch

Etymology

A minced oath from god.

Pronunciation

Interjection

gut

1. gee

German

Alternative forms

• g?t (Early New High German)

Etymology

From Old High German guot, from Proto-Germanic *g?daz, from Proto-Indo-European *g?ed?-. Cognate to Luxembourgish gutt, Silesian German gutt, Dutch goed, West Frisian goed, English good, Danish god, Norwegian god and Swedish god.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?t/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /??t/ (colloquial, chiefly for the interjection)
• (Germany)
• (Austria)
• Rhymes: -u?t

Adjective

gut (comparative besser, superlative am besten)

1. good (acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral)
2. good (effective; useful)
3. good (fortunate)
4. good (having a particularly pleasant taste)
5. all right, fair, proper (satisfactory)
6. good (full; entire; at least as much as)

Declension

Antonyms

• schlecht (qualitatively or ethically bad)
• böse (morally evil)

Derived terms

Adverb

gut (comparative besser, superlative am besten)

1. well (accurately, competently, satisfactorily)

2. a little more than (with measurements)

   Antonym: knapp

3. easily, likely

Interjection

gut

1. okay, all right, now then

Further reading

• “gut” in Duden online
• “gut” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Middle English

Noun

gut

1. Alternative form of gutte

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Possibly from Dutch guit (“troublemaker”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???t/

Noun

gut m (definite singular guten, indefinite plural gutar, definite plural gutane)

1. a boy (young male)

Derived terms

• ballgut

See also

• gutt (Bokmål)

References

“gut” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German guot. Compare German gut, Dutch goed, English good.

Adjective

gut (comparative besser, superlative bescht)

1. good
2. kind

Related terms

• besser
• bescht

Romansch

Noun

gut m (plural guts)

1. drop

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English good.

Adverb

gut

1. well

Related terms

• gutpela
• nogut

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /???t/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /??t/

Noun

gut

1. Soft mutation of cut.

Mutation

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Norwegian gutt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???t/

Noun

gut

1. A boy