Where the Romanian word “colon” comes from
From French.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (pl. -i):
Din fr. colon, lat. colonus.
→ French · DEX '98 - Homonym 2 (pl. -uri):
Din fr. côlon, lat. colon.
→ French · DEX '98 - Homonym 3 (pl. -es):
Din sp. colono.
→ Other languages · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- French (same language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- French côlon
- In film dialogue
- 2.7 times per million words · number 8,469 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 8.4 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 5.9 1.3 0.5 1.7 0.0 - Swap in a synonym
- colonist (German)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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