κόλον

Uncertain. Grammarians of Hellenistic times proposed relation to βουκόλος (boukólos, “tending kine”), δύσκολος (dúskolos, “difficult”), κόλαξ (kólax, “flatterer”). Other theories include κυλλός (kullós, “crooked, club-footed”) and κόλος (kólos, “docked, hornless”). No relation to κῶλον (kôlon, “limb”).

κόλον • (kólon) n (genitive κόλου); second declension

1. (anatomy) colon (last part of the digestive system)

• → Greek: κόλον (kólon) (learned)
• → Latin: colon (see there for further descendants)
• → Classical Syriac: ܩܘܠܘܢ (qōlōn)

• κόλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “κόλον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
• “κόλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

κόλον • (kólon)

1. inflection of κόλος (kólos):
   1. neuter nominative/vocative singular
   2. masculine/feminine/neuter accusative singular

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κόλον of uncertain etymon. Grammarians of Hellenistic times proposed relation to βουκόλος (boukólos, “tending kine”), δύσκολος (dúskolos, “difficult”), κόλαξ (kólax, “flatterer”). Other theories include κυλλός (kullós, “crooked, club-footed”) and κόλος (kólos, “docked, hornless”). No relation to κῶλον (kôlon, “limb”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.lon/

κόλον • (kólon) n (indeclinable)

1. (anatomy) colon (last part of the digestive system)

• κολονοσκόπηση f (kolonoskópisi, “colonoscopy”)

• λεπτό έντερο n (leptó éntero, “small intestine”)
• παχύ έντερο n (pachý éntero, “large intestine”)

• Έντερο on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el