Where does “côlon” come from?
côlon (French) comes from French colonel, from Middle French coronel, from Italian colonnello, from Italian -ello, from Latin -ellus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
côlon (French): colon
Definitions
- colon
Ancestry of “côlon”, step by step
côlon traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French colonel
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | colonel | A colonel, highest commissioned officer below... |
| 2 | Middle French | coronel | — |
| 3 | Italian | colonnello | colonel |
| 4 | Italian | -ello | Alterative suffix used to form... |
| 5 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 6 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via Latin colōnus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | colōnus | farmer, especially a kind of tenant farmer or sharecropper; husbandman; tiller of the soil |
| 2 | Latin | colō | to cultivate the land, till, tend, take care of a field or garden |
| 3 | Latin | quelō | — |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | to inhabit |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |