Words that come from Ancient Greek “κῶλον”

70 words across 15 languages descend from Ancient Greek κῶλον — including colon, colonic, semicolon, colonoscopy, coliform, megacolon, mesocolon, colonoscope.

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English (32)

Greek (14)

Spanish (4)

Ancient Greek (3)

Latin (3)

Danish (2)

Japanese (2)

Norwegian Bokmål (2)

Norwegian Nynorsk (2)

Translingual (1)

Icelandic (1)

Classical Syriac (1)

Italian (1)

Swahili (1)

German (1)