colo

See also: Colo, coló, colò, colo-, -colo, Colo., coło, and čoło

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊləʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊləʊ

Noun

colo (uncountable)

1. (computing) co-location

   The previous wall outlet tests at their colo facility ran for 6 days straight without issue.

   One was a mistake in the colo, where there was a mislabeled circuit, so they cut power to 1/3 of one of our racks.

Anagrams

• COOL, Cool, cool, loco

Asturian

Etymology

From a contraction of the preposition con (“with”) + neuter singular article lo (“the”).

Contraction

colo n (masculine col, feminine cola, masculine plural colos, feminine plural coles)

1. with the

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Verb

colo

1. first-person singular present indicative of colar

Esperanto

Etymology

From German Zoll. Compare Polish cal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡solo]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -olo
• Hyphenation: co‧lo

Noun

colo (accusative singular colon, plural coloj, accusative plural colojn)

1. inch (one twelfth of a foot, or exactly 2.54 centimeters)

   La vivo estas ludo de coloj.

   Life is a game of inches.

Related terms

• futo (“foot; 12 inches”)
• jardo (“yard; 3 feet or 36 inches”)
• mejlo (“mile; 1,760 yards or 63,360 inches”)

 

French

Etymology

Clipping of colonie (see colonie de vacances).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.lo/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

colo f (plural colos)

1. (informal) camp

Further reading

• “colo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese colo, from Latin collum (“neck”). Compare Portuguese colo and Spanish cuello.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔlo̝/

Noun

colo m (plural colos)

1. (anatomy) neck; collum (part of body connecting the head and the trunk)
2. (anatomy) neck (part of a bone that connects its head to its body)
3. (anatomy) cervix (necklike portion of any part)
4. lap (upper legs of a seated person)

   Synonyms: abada, bada, abán, seo, regazo

5. torso, shoulders and arms of a standing person
   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 690:

     Et por esta razõ sempre andou en andas et en colo dos omes ata que morreu.

     And for this reason he always went in stretchers and in the arms of men until he died

   • 1439, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 419:

     Sisa das olas: Iten, ordenaron que qual quer persona que trouxer carga d'olas de fora parte a vender aa dita çidade, que page de cada carga d'olas, duas brancas e de un costal d'olas, hua branca, e do feixe das olas que trouxer en collo, un diñeyro, e de cada qántara, dous diñeiros

     Assize of the pots: Item, they ordered that any person who brings a load of pots from the outside for selling inside this city, that they shall pay two white coins for each load; and a white coin for a sack; and for the lot that they carry in their arms, a coin; an two coins for each amphora

   Non leves a nena no colo, deixa que ande. ― Don't carry the little girl in your arms, let her walk.

Derived terms

• coller no colo (“to take in arms”)
• levar no colo (“to carry in arms (a baby, a child)”)

Related terms

• colar

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “colo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “colo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “colo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “colo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “colo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin cōlum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.lo/
• Rhymes: -olo
• Hyphenation: có‧lo

Noun

colo m (plural coli) (rare)

1. a kind of sieve or strainer

   Synonyms: crivello, staccio

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.lo/
• Rhymes: -olo
• Hyphenation: có‧lo

Verb

colo

1. first-person singular present indicative of colare

Etymology 3

From Latin colon, from Ancient Greek κόλον (kólon).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.lo/
• Rhymes: -ɔlo
• Hyphenation: cò‧lo

Noun

colo m (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Alternative form of colon

Etymology 4

From Latin cōlon, from Ancient Greek κῶλον (kôlon).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.lo/
• Rhymes: -ɔlo
• Hyphenation: cò‧lo

Noun

colo m (plural cola)

1. a member or part of a verse of a poem
2. an ancient punctuation mark

Etymology 5

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.lo/
• Rhymes: -ɔlo
• Hyphenation: cò‧lo

Verb

colo

1. first-person singular present indicative of colere

Anagrams

• loco, locò, oclo-

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *kʷelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- (“to move, to turn (around), to revolve around, and therefore to sojourn, to dwell”). The same root also gave in-quil-īnus (“inhabitant”) and anculus (“servant”).

Cognates include Ancient Greek πέλω (pélō), πόλος (pólos), τέλλω (téllō), τέλος (télos), τῆλε (têle), πάλαι (pálai), κύκλος (kúklos), Sanskrit चरति (cárati), English wheel.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈko.loː/, [ˈkɔɫ̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.lo/, [ˈkɔːlo]

Verb

colō (present infinitive colere, perfect active coluī, supine cultum); third conjugation

1. to cultivate the land, till, tend, take care of a field or garden (literal)

   Synonyms: incolō, subigō

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.779:

     cum colerent prīscī studiōsius agrōs

     when [the people] of ancient [times] were tilling their fields more diligently

2. to inhabit

   Synonyms: habitō, obsideō, resideō, possideō, cōnsīdō, iaceō, subsīdō, stabulō, incolō, vīvō, versor

3. to frequent, be the guardian of, cherish, care for, protect, nurture

   Synonyms: cūrō, accūrō, prōcūrō, videō, respiciō, cōnsultō, cōnsulō, caveō, serviō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.15–16:

     quam Iūnō fertur terrīs magis omnibus ūnam
     posthabitā coluisse Samō [...].

     [Carthage], which Juno is said to have cherished more than any other place, even Samos having been less esteemed [...].
     (The queen of the gods – Juno or Hera – cherished and protected Carthage even more than the island of Samos, where a large temple was dedicated to her worship. See: Juno (mythology); Carthage; Samos; Heraion of Samos.)

4. (figuratively) to worship, honor, revere, reverence
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.728:

     coepit Aventīna Pallas in arce colī

     Pallas began to be worshiped on the Aventine summit.
     (A temple on the Aventine Hill had been dedicated to Pallas, an epithet of Athena, whom the Romans equated with Minerva.)

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Exodus.20.5:

     Nōn adōrābis ea, neque colēs: ego sum Dominus Deus tuus fortis, zēlōtēs, vīsitāns inīquitātem patrum in fīliōs, in tertiam et quārtam generātiōnem eōrum quī ōdērunt mē.

     Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.

Usage notes

The words colō and excolō can be confused in usage. Their root being the Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-, originally colō probably meant turning (plowing for cultivation) the soil, and by extension of inhabiting a place; by further extension, it adopted the senses of improving said habitation by cultivating the land and through the specific nurture of crops. While figurative senses of nurturing and improving are attributable to colō, they are more properly rendered by excolō, since nurture and improvement are the parts of the (literal) process of land cultivation "out of" (ex-) which springs excolō, rendering the figurative and universal sense of cultivating. This means colō/cultus/cultiō can properly render cultivation strictly in the agricultural sense, while excolō/excultus/excultiō are for the senses of cultivation—improvement by means of effort or labor—in the general, non-agricultural sense.

Conjugation

   Conjugation of colō (third conjugation)

indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	colō	colis	colit	colimus	colitis	colunt
	imperfect	colēbam	colēbās	colēbat	colēbāmus	colēbātis	colēbant
	future	colam	colēs	colet	colēmus	colētis	colent
	perfect	coluī	coluistī	coluit	coluimus	coluistis	coluērunt, coluēre
	pluperfect	colueram	coluerās	coluerat	coluerāmus	coluerātis	coluerant
	future perfect	coluerō	colueris	coluerit	coluerimus	colueritis	coluerint
passive	present	color	coleris, colere	colitur	colimur	coliminī	coluntur
	imperfect	colēbar	colēbāris, colēbāre	colēbātur	colēbāmur	colēbāminī	colēbantur
	future	colar	colēris, colēre	colētur	colēmur	colēminī	colentur
	perfect	cultus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	cultus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	cultus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	colam	colās	colat	colāmus	colātis	colant
imperfect	colerem	colerēs	coleret	colerēmus	colerētis	colerent
perfect	coluerim	coluerīs	coluerit	coluerīmus	coluerītis	coluerint
pluperfect	coluissem	coluissēs	coluisset	coluissēmus	coluissētis	coluissent
passive	present	colar	colāris, colāre	colātur	colāmur	colāminī	colantur
imperfect	colerer	colerēris, colerēre	colerētur	colerēmur	colerēminī	colerentur
perfect	cultus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect	cultus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	cole	—	—	colite	—
	future	—	colitō	colitō	—	colitōte	coluntō
passive	present	—	colere	—	—	coliminī	—
	future	—	colitor	colitor	—	—	coluntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		colere	coluisse	cultūrum esse	colī	cultum esse	cultum īrī
participles		colēns	—	cultūrus	—	cultus	colendus, colundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		colendī	colendō	colendum	colendō	cultum	cultū

Derived terms

• accolō
• circumcolō
• -cola
• colēns
• colonus
• culta
• cultē
• cultiō
• cultūra
• cultus
• excolō
• incolō
• incultus
• monticola
• praecolō
• recolō

 

Related terms

• anculus
• inquilīnus

Descendants

• Catalan: coldre, colre
• Old Occitan: colre
• French: cultiver
• Italian: coltivare
• → Polish: kultywować
• Portuguese: cultivar
• Romanian: cultiva
• Sicilian: curtivari
• Spanish: cultivar

Etymology 2

From cōlum (“colander, strainer”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.loː/, [ˈkoːɫ̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.lo/, [ˈkɔːlo]

Verb

cōlō (present infinitive cōlāre, perfect active cōlāvī, supine cōlātum); first conjugation

1. to filter, strain, purify

Conjugation

   Conjugation of cōlō (first conjugation)

indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	cōlō	cōlās	cōlat	cōlāmus	cōlātis	cōlant
	imperfect	cōlābam	cōlābās	cōlābat	cōlābāmus	cōlābātis	cōlābant
	future	cōlābō	cōlābis	cōlābit	cōlābimus	cōlābitis	cōlābunt
	perfect	cōlāvī	cōlāvistī	cōlāvit	cōlāvimus	cōlāvistis	cōlāvērunt, cōlāvēre
	pluperfect	cōlāveram	cōlāverās	cōlāverat	cōlāverāmus	cōlāverātis	cōlāverant
	future perfect	cōlāverō	cōlāveris	cōlāverit	cōlāverimus	cōlāveritis	cōlāverint
passive	present	cōlor	cōlāris, cōlāre	cōlātur	cōlāmur	cōlāminī	cōlantur
	imperfect	cōlābar	cōlābāris, cōlābāre	cōlābātur	cōlābāmur	cōlābāminī	cōlābantur
	future	cōlābor	cōlāberis, cōlābere	cōlābitur	cōlābimur	cōlābiminī	cōlābuntur
	perfect	cōlātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	cōlātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	cōlātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	cōlem	cōlēs	cōlet	cōlēmus	cōlētis	cōlent
imperfect	cōlārem	cōlārēs	cōlāret	cōlārēmus	cōlārētis	cōlārent
perfect	cōlāverim	cōlāverīs	cōlāverit	cōlāverīmus	cōlāverītis	cōlāverint
pluperfect	cōlāvissem	cōlāvissēs	cōlāvisset	cōlāvissēmus	cōlāvissētis	cōlāvissent
passive	present	cōler	cōlēris, cōlēre	cōlētur	cōlēmur	cōlēminī	cōlentur
imperfect	cōlārer	cōlārēris, cōlārēre	cōlārētur	cōlārēmur	cōlārēminī	cōlārentur
perfect	cōlātus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect	cōlātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	cōlā	—	—	cōlāte	—
	future	—	cōlātō	cōlātō	—	cōlātōte	cōlantō
passive	present	—	cōlāre	—	—	cōlāminī	—
	future	—	cōlātor	cōlātor	—	—	cōlantor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		cōlāre	cōlāvisse	cōlātūrum esse	cōlārī	cōlātum esse	cōlātum īrī
participles		cōlāns	—	cōlātūrus	—	cōlātus	cōlandus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		cōlandī	cōlandō	cōlandum	cōlandō	cōlātum	cōlātū

Derived terms

• cōlātus
• dēcōlō
• excōlō
• percōlō
• recōlō

 

Descendants

• Friulian: colâ
• Italian: colare
• Old French:
  • French: couler
  • Walloon: couler
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: colar
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: colar
  • Occitan: colar
• Old Galician-Portuguese: coar
  • Galician: coar
  • Portuguese: coar
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: colar
• Piedmontese: colé
• Sicilian: culari
• Venetan: cołar
• → Albanian: kulloj

References

• “colo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “colo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• colo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• colo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to keep up, foster a connection: amicitiam colere
    
  • to pay respect to, be courteous to a person: aliquem colere et observare (Att. 2. 19)
    
  • to be engaged in the pursuit of letters: litteras colere
    
  • to cultivate the mind: animum, ingenium excolere (not colere)
    
  • to preserve one's loyalty: fidem colere, servare
    
  • to do one's duty: officium suum facere, servare, colere, tueri, exsequi, praestare
    
  • to honour the gods with all due ceremonial (very devoutly): deum rite (summa religione) colere
    
  • to pay divine honours to some one: aliquem divino honere colere
    
  • to till the ground: agrum colere (Leg. Agr. 2. 25. 67)
    

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin collum. Cognate with Old Spanish cuello and Old French col.

Pronunciation

• (Galicia) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.lo/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.lʊ/

Noun

colo m (plural colos)

1. neck
2. lap

Descendants

• Fala: colu
• Galician: colo
• Portuguese: colo

Further reading

• Universo Cantigas - "colo"

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.lu/

• Rhymes: -ɔlu
• Hyphenation: co‧lo

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese colo, from Latin collum (“neck”). Cognate with Galician colo, Spanish cuello, Italian collo, and French cou.

Alternative forms

• collo (obsolete)

Noun

colo m (plural colos)

1. lap (upper legs of a seated person)

   Synonym: regaço

   • 1905, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “A Cigana [The Gypsy]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]‎^[2], 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, page 146:

     A Cigana, parecendo comprehender aquellas palavras, endireitou-se, e pousando as patas no collo da menina, beijou-lhe carinhosamente as mãos...

     The Gypsy, appearing to comprehend those words, straightened up, and, laying her paws on the girl’s lap, kissed her hands lovingly...

2. (anatomy) neck; collum (part of body connecting the head and the trunk)
3. (anatomy) neck (part of a bone that connects its head to its body)
4. (anatomy) cervix (necklike portion of any part)
5. gap (mountain or hill pass)

   Synonyms: passo, portela, porto

6. (botany) the channel of an archegonium

Related terms

• colar

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin cōlon (“colon”), from Ancient Greek κῶλον (kôlon, “limb”).

Noun

colo m (plural colos)

1. Alternative form of cólon

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

colo

1. first-person singular present indicative of colar

Romanian

Etymology

Clipping of acolo.

Adverb

colo

1. there

   Synonym: acolo

Spanish

Verb

colo

1. first-person singular present indicative of colar (“to canonically confer (an ecclesiastical benefit)”)