Where does “colon” come from?
colon (Catalan) comes from Latin colōnus, from Latin colō, from Latin quelō, from Proto-Italic kʷelō, from Proto-Indo-European kʷéleti, from Proto-Indo-European kʷel- — to turn.
colon (Catalan): colonist, settler; farmer during the Roman Empire
Definitions
- colonist, settler; farmer during the Roman Empire
Ancestry of “colon”, step by step