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

colo (uncountable)

1. (computing)co-location

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

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

• COOL,Cool,cool,loco

From a contraction of the prepositioncon(“with”) + neuter singular articlelo(“the”).

colo n (masculinecol,femininecola,masculine pluralcolos,feminine pluralcoles)

1. withthe

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

colo

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofcolar

FromGermanZoll. ComparePolishcal.

• IPA^(key):/ˈt͡solo/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes:-olo
• Hyphenation: co‧lo

colo (accusative singularcolon,pluralcoloj,accusative pluralcolojn)

1. inch(onetwelfth of afoot, or exactly 2.54centimeters)

   La vivo estas ludo decoloj.

   Life is a game ofinches.

Clipping ofcolonie (seecolonie de vacances).

• IPA^(key):/kɔ.lo/

• Audio:

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colo f (pluralcolos)

1. (informal)camp

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

FromOld Galician-Portuguesecolo, fromLatincollum(“neck”). ComparePortuguesecolo andSpanishcuello.

• IPA^(key):/ˈkɔlo̝/

colo m (pluralcolos)

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 andarms of astandingperson
   • c.1295, R. Lorenzo, editor,La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page690:

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

     And for this reason he always went in stretchers andin 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 trouxeren 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 carryin their arms, a coin; an two coins for each amphora

   Non leves a nenano colo, deixa que ande. ―Don't carry the little girlin your arms, let her walk.

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

• colar

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

Borrowed fromLatincōlum.

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

colo m (pluralcoli)(rare)

1. a kind ofsieve orstrainer

   Synonyms:crivello,staccio

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

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

colo

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofcolare

FromLatincolon, fromAncient Greekκόλον(kólon).

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

colo m (uncountable)

1. (archaic)Alternative form ofcolon

FromLatincōlon, fromAncient Greekκῶλον(kôlon).

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

colo m (pluralcola)

1. amember or part of averse of apoem
2. an ancientpunctuation mark

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

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

colo

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofcolere

• loco,locò,oclo-

FromProto-Italic*kʷelō, fromProto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-(“to move, to turn (around), to revolve around, and therefore to sojourn, to dwell”). The same root also gavein-quil-īnus(“inhabitant”) andanculus(“servant”).

Cognates includeAncient Greekπέλω(pélō),πόλος(pólos),τέλλω(téllō),τέλος(télos),τῆλε(têle),πάλαι(pálai),κύκλος(kúklos),Sanskritचरति(cárati),Englishwheel.

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

colō (present infinitivecolere,perfect activecoluī,supinecultum);third conjugation

1. tocultivate the land,till,tend,takecare of a field or garden (literal)

   Synonyms:incolō,subigō

   • 8CE,Ovid,Fasti3.779:

     cumcolerent prīscī studiōsius agrōs

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

2. toinhabit

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

3. tofrequent, be theguardian of,cherish,care for,protect,nurture

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

   • 29BCE – 19BCE,Virgil,Aeneid1.15–16:

     quam Iūnō fertur terrīs magis omnibus ūnam
     posthabitācoluisse Samō [...].

     [Carthage], which Juno is saidto 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) toworship,honor,revere,reverence
   • 8CE,Ovid,Fasti6.728:

     coepit Aventīna Pallas in arcecolī

     Pallas beganto be worshiped on the Aventine summit.
     (A temple on theAventine Hill had been dedicated to Pallas, an epithet ofAthena, whom the Romans equated withMinerva.)

   • 405CE,Jerome,Vulgate Exodus.20.5:

     Nōn adōrābis ea, nequecolēs: 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, norserve 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.

The wordscolō andexcolō can be confused in usage. Their root being theProto-Indo-European*kʷel-, originallycolō 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 tocolō, they are more properly rendered byexcolō, since nurture and improvement are the parts of the (literal) process of land cultivation "out of" (ex-) which springsexcolō, rendering the figurative and universal sense of cultivating. This meanscolō/cultus/cultiō can properly render cultivation strictly in the agricultural sense, whileexcolō/excultus/excultiō are for the senses of cultivation—improvement by means of effort or labor—in the general, non-agricultural sense.

• anculus
• inquilīnus

Fromcōlum(“colander, strainer”).

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

cōlō (present infinitivecōlāre,perfect activecōlāvī,supinecōlātum);first conjugation

1. tofilter,strain,purify

• “colo”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “colo”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "colo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• colo inGaffiot, 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 (notcolere)
    
  • 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)
    

Inherited fromLatincollum. Cognate withOld Spanishcuello andOld Frenchcol.

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

colo m (pluralcolos)

1. neck
2. lap

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

• Universo Cantigas - "colo"

• Rhymes:-ɔlu
• Hyphenation:co‧lo

Inherited fromOld Galician-Portuguesecolo, fromLatincollum(“neck”).^[1][2] Cognate withGaliciancolo,Spanishcuello,Italiancollo, andFrenchcou.

• collo(obsolete)

colo m (pluralcolos)

1. lap(upper legs of a seated person)

   Synonym:regaço

   • 1880,Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “A Cigana [The Gypsy]”, inContos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]‎^[2], 2nd edition,Lisbon:Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, published1905, page146:

     ACigana, parecendo comprehender aquellas palavras, endireitou-se, e pousando as patas nocollo da menina, beijou-lhe carinhosamente as mãos...

     TheGypsy, appearing to comprehend those words, straightened up, and, laying her paws on the girl’slap, 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) thechannel of anarchegonium

• colar

Borrowed fromLatincōlon(“colon”), fromAncient Greekκῶλον(kôlon,“limb”).

colo m (pluralcolos)

1. Alternative form ofcólon

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

colo

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofcolar

Clipping ofacolo.

colo

1. there

   Synonym:acolo

colo

1. first-personsingularpresentindicative ofcolar(“to canonically confer (an ecclesiastical benefit)”)