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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈkəʊ.lən/, /ˈkəʊ.lɒn/
• (米国発音) enPR: kō'lən, IPA: /ˈkoʊ.lən/, /ˈkɔ.lən/, [ˈkʰɔ.ɫn̩]
• 韻: -əʊlən, -əʊlɒn

語源 1

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

名詞

colon (plural colons or cola)

1. The punctuation mark ⟨:⟩.
   • 2005, William Strunk Jr., 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.

同意語

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

派生語

参考

• Wikipedia article on colons (in punctuation)

Punctuation

語源 2

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

名詞

colon (plural colons or cola or coli)

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. (Because the colon is the largest part of the large intestine (constituting most of it), it is often treated as synonymous therewith in broad or casual usage.)
   • 2025 March 21, Katia Hetter, “Reduce your risk of colon and rectal cancer with these basic steps”, in CNN‎:

     Colorectal cancer refers to colon cancer, which starts in the colon, and rectal cancer, which starts in the rectum.

Meronyms

• ascending colon
• transverse colon
• descending colon
• sigmoid colon

Holonyms

• (segment of digestive system): large intestine, large bowel

派生語

参考

• Wikipedia article on the colon (in anatomy)
• bowel
• large intestine
• rectum

語源 3

From French colon.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /kəˈlɒn/
• (米国発音) IPA: /kəˈloʊn/, /koʊ.loʊn/

名詞

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, published 2006, page 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.

別の表記

• 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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “colon”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “colon”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• Locon, locon, lonco

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkɔ.ɫɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkɔː.lon]

名詞

colon n (genitive colī); second declension

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

語形変化

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

派生した語

語源 2

From Ancient Greek κῶλον (kôlon).

別の表記

• cōlum
• cōlus

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈkoː.ɫɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈkɔː.lon]

名詞

cōlon n (genitive cōlī); second declension

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

語形変化

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

同意語

• (member of a verse): membrum

派生した語

• → English: colon

参照

• “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

接頭辞

colon-

1. Alternative form of colono- (before a vowel)

派生語