• Arabic: نقطة مزدوجة
• Bulgarian: двоеточие
• Catalan: dos punts m|p
• Croatian: dvotočka, dvotočje
• Czech: dvojtečka
• Dutch: dubbelpunt
• Esperanto: dupunkto
• Finnish: kaksoispiste
• French: deux points
• German: Doppelpunkt
• Indonesian: titik dua
• Interlingua: duo punctos
• Italian: due punti
• Japanese: コロン
• Korean: 쌍점 (雙点, ssangjeom)
• Polish: dwukropek
• Portuguese: dois-pontos
• Russian: двоеточие
• Slovak: dvojbodka
• Slovene: dvopičje
• Spanish: dos puntos
• Swedish: kolon

• Arabic: قولون
• Bulgarian: колон
• Catalan: còlon
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大肠

• Dutch: karteldarm
• Esperanto: kojlo
• French: côlon
• German: Kolon, Grimmdarm
• Japanese: 大腸
• Korean: 큰창자 (keunchangja), 대장 (大腸, deajang)
• Polish: okrężnica
• Portuguese: cólon
• Russian: ободочная кишка, толстая кишка
• Slovak: hrubé črevo
• Slovene: debelo črevo, danka
• Spanish: colon

See also

• Wikipedia article on colons (in punctuation)
• Wikipedia article on the colon (in anatomy)

Italian

Noun

colon m inv

1. In the context of "anatomy|lang=it": colon

Derived terms

• colectomia
• colite
• colon ascendente
• colon discendente
• colon sigmoideo
• colon trasverso
• colonscopia
• colostomia
• sindrome del colon irritabile

Colon may refer to:

• from Greek κολον "intestine, sausage"
  • Colon (anatomy)

• from Greek κωλον "portion"
  • Colon (rhetoric), a clause which is grammatically, but not logically, complete
  • Colon (punctuation)

• French colons for "colonists", see Pieds-noirs

toponymy

• Colon Township, Michigan, in St. Joseph County, Michigan, United States
  • Colon, Michigan, a village located within Colon Township
• Colon, Nebraska, a village in Saunders County, Nebraska, United States
• from Colón, the Spanish name of Christopher Columbus (from the Italian surname Colombo "dove")
  • Colón, Panama

proper names:

• Cristóbal Colón, the Spanish rendering of Christopher Columbus
• Colon classification, a library classification system
• Colon, an alternative name used in France for wine made from the Gros Verdot grape

in popular culture

• Fred Colon, a Discworld character

See also

• Colón (disambiguation)
• Cologne (disambiguation)

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