Meaning and Origin
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Origin and Meaning of Colon
User Submitted Origins
Spanish
70%
English
20%
Scottish
10%
User Submitted Meanings
- A user from New York, U.S. says the name Colon is of Spanish origin and means "Hispanic".
International Interest
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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
noun Co"lon
Senses
- [Anat] That part of the large intestines which extends from the cæcum to the rectum.
Note: See Illust. of Digestion
- [Gram] A point or character, formed thus [:], used to separate parts of a sentence that are complete in themselves and nearly independent, often taking the place of a conjunction.
Etymology: L. colon colum, limb, member, the largest of the intestines, fr. Gr. kw^lon, and in sense of the intestine, ko`lon: cf. F. colon. Cf. Colic
Other Dictionary Sources
- The part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted
- A punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter)
- A port city at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal
- The basic unit of money in Costa Rica; equal to 100 centimos
- The basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos
Wiktionary
From Latin cōlon (“a member of a verse of poem”), from Ancient Greek κῶλον (kôlon, “a member, limb, clause, part of a verse”).
- The punctuation mark "".
- (rare) The triangular colon (especially in context of not being able to type the actual triangular colon).
- (rhetoric) A rhetorical figure consisting of a clause which is grammatically, but not logically, complete.
From Latin cōlon (“large intestine”), from Ancient Greek κόλον (kólon, “the large intestine, also food, meat, fodder”).
- (anatomy) Part of the large intestine; the final segment of the digestive system, after (distal to) the ileum and before (proximal to) the anus
From French colon.
- (obsolete) A husbandman.
- A European colonial settler, especially in a French colony.
colon was also found in the following language(s): Asturian, Catalan, Esperanto, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish