different between colonic vs colon

English

Etymology

colon +? -ic

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?n?k

Adjective

colonic (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to, affecting or within the colon.

Derived terms

Noun

colonic (plural colonics)

1. An enema.

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.