coli

See also: colí and çoli

English

Escherichia coli

Etymology

Ellipsis of Bacterium coli or Bacillus coli, obsolete taxonomic names of the species (now called Escherichia coli). The word itself derives from Latin colī, genitive of colon (“colon, large intestine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊ.laɪ/

Noun

coli (plural coli)

1. (often attributive, bacteriology) Escherichia coli, a Gram-negative bacterium commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms.

   Synonym: colibacillus

   • 1939 January, Thomas T. Mackie, “The Specificity of the Agglutinin Reaction for Shigella dysenteriae: II. Agglutinin Absorption Relationships between Shigella dysenteriae and Escherichia coli”, in Journal of Bacteriology‎^[1], volume 37, number 1, →PMID, archived from the original on 10 June 2020, page 47:

     Five of the strains of E. coli are related to only one of the S. dysenteriae strains. Three of the coli are related to two of the strains of S. dysenteriae, four are related to three of the S. dysenteriae strains, and one, A-H6, is related to all.

Derived terms

• colibacillosis
• colibacilluria
• colibacillus
• coliphage
• colisepticemia

Related terms

• colicine
• coliform

Translations

Escherichia coli

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大腸桿菌 / 大肠杆菌 (zh) (dàcháng gǎnjūn)

• Finnish: kolibakteeri (fi)
• French: coli (fr) m, colibacille (fr) m
• German: Kolibakterium n, Kolibakterie f
• Hungarian: kólibaktérium (hu), kólibacilus (hu)
• Italian: colibacillo (it) m
• Polish: pałeczka okrężnicy (pl) f
• Russian: кише́чная па́лочка (ru) f (kišéčnaja páločka)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• Clio, Coil, coil, loci

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkɔ.li]

Verb

coli

1. inflection of colar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Indonesian

Etymology 1

Javanese ngocok + Javanese peli. Equivalent to blend of mengocok +‎ pelir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃo.li/
• Hyphenation: co‧li

Noun

coli

1. (vulgar, slang) masturbation

   Synonyms: masturbasi, onani, rancap

Verb

coli

1. (vulgar, slang) to masturbate

   Synonyms: masturbasi, onani, merancap

Etymology 2

From Malay coli, culi, probably from Hindi चोली (colī).

Noun

coli

1. (obsolete) bra

   Synonyms: beha, bra, kutang

Etymology 3

From Alas-Kluet Batak coli.

Noun

coli

1. (dialect) ripe jackfruit

Further reading

• “coli” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Verb

coli

1. inflection of colare:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• Clio

Latin

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.liː/, [ˈkoːlʲiː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.li/, [ˈkɔːli]

Noun

cōlī n

1. genitive singular of cōlum (“colander, strainer”)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.liː/, [ˈkoːlʲiː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.li/, [ˈkɔːli]

Noun

cōlī n

1. genitive singular of cōlum (“colon (member or part of a verse or poem)”)
2. genitive singular of cōlon (“colon (member or part of a verse or poem)”)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈko.liː/, [ˈkɔlʲiː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.li/, [ˈkɔːli]

Noun

colī n

1. genitive singular of colon (“colon (large intestine)”)

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈko.liː/, [ˈkɔlʲiː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.li/, [ˈkɔːli]

Verb

colī

1. present passive infinitive of colō

Malay

Etymology

Probably from Hindi चोली (colī).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i

Noun

coli (Jawi spelling چولي, plural coli-coli)

1. bra

Descendants

• Indonesian: coli