# colo
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkəʊləʊ/
* Rhymes: -əʊləʊ

### Noun

colo (uncountable)
* (computing) co-location
    The previous wall outlet tests at their colo facility ran for 6 days straight without issue.
    One was a mistake in the colo, where there was a mislabeled circuit, so they cut power to 1/3 of one of our racks.

### Anagrams

* COOL, Cool, cool, loco

## Asturian
### Etymology

From a contraction of the preposition con (“with”) + neuter singular article lo (“the”).

### Contraction

colo n (masculine col, feminine cola, masculine plural colos, feminine plural coles)
* with the

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈkɔ.lu]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈkɔ.lo]

### Verb

colo
* first-person singular present indicative of colar

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From German Zoll. Compare Polish cal.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈt͡solo]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -olo
* Hyphenation: co‧lo

### Noun

colo (accusative singular colon, plural coloj, accusative plural colojn)
* inch (one twelfth of a foot, or exactly 2.54 centimeters)
    La vivo estas ludo de coloj.Life is a game of inches.

#### Related terms

* futo (“foot; 12 inches”)
* jardo (“yard; 3 feet or 36 inches”)
* mejlo (“mile; 1,760 yards or 63,360 inches”)

## French
### Etymology

Clipping of colonie (see colonie de vacances).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔ.lo/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

colo f (plural colos)
* (informal) camp

### Further reading

* “colo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese colo, from Latin collum (“neck”). Compare Portuguese colo and Spanish cuello.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔlo̝/

### Noun

colo m (plural colos)
* (anatomy) neck; collum (part of body connecting the head and the trunk)
* (anatomy) neck (part of a bone that connects its head to its body)
* (anatomy) cervix (necklike portion of any part)
* lap (upper legs of a seated person)
    Synonyms: abada, bada, abán, seo, regazo
* torso, shoulders and arms of a standing person
** c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F, page 690:Et por esta razõ sempre andou en andas et en colo dos omes ata que morreu.And for this reason he always went in stretchers and in 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 trouxer en collo, un diñeyro, e de cada qántara, dous diñeirosAssize 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 carry in their arms, a coin; an two coins for each amphora
    Non leves a nena no colo, deixa que ande. ― Don't carry the little girl in your arms, let her walk.

#### Derived terms

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

#### Related terms

* colar

### References

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

## Italian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin cōlum.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈko.lo/
* Rhymes: -olo
* Hyphenation: có‧lo

#### Noun

colo m (plural coli) (rare)
* a kind of sieve or strainer
    Synonyms: crivello, staccio

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈko.lo/
* Rhymes: -olo
* Hyphenation: có‧lo

#### Verb

colo
* first-person singular present indicative of colare

### Etymology 3

From Latin colon, from Ancient Greek κόλον (kólon).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔ.lo/
* Rhymes: -ɔlo
* Hyphenation: cò‧lo

#### Noun

colo m (uncountable)
* (archaic) Alternative form of colon

### Etymology 4

From Latin cōlon, from Ancient Greek κῶλον (kôlon).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔ.lo/
* Rhymes: -ɔlo
* Hyphenation: cò‧lo

#### Noun

colo m (plural cola)
* a member or part of a verse of a poem
* an ancient punctuation mark

### Etymology 5

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔ.lo/
* Rhymes: -ɔlo
* Hyphenation: cò‧lo

#### Verb

colo
* first-person singular present indicative of colere

### Anagrams

* loco, locò, oclo-

## Latin
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *kʷelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- (“to move, to turn (around), to revolve around, and therefore to sojourn, to dwell”). The same root also gave in-quil-īnus (“inhabitant”) and anculus (“servant”).
Cognates include Ancient Greek πέλω (pélō), πόλος (pólos), τέλλω (téllō), τέλος (télos), τῆλε (têle), πάλαι (pálai), κύκλος (kúklos), Sanskrit चरति (cárati), English wheel.

#### Pronunciation

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

#### Verb

colō (present infinitive colere, perfect active coluī, supine cultum); third conjugation
* to cultivate the land, till, tend, take care of a field or garden (literal)
    Synonyms: incolō, subigō
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.779:cum colerent prīscī studiōsius agrōswhen [the people] of ancient [times] were tilling their fields more diligently
* to inhabit
    Synonyms: habitō, obsideō, resideō, possideō, cōnsīdō, iaceō, subsīdō, stabulō, incolō, vīvō, versor
* to frequent, be the guardian of, cherish, care for, protect, nurture
    Synonyms: cūrō, accūrō, prōcūrō, videō, respiciō, cōnsultō, cōnsulō, caveō, serviō
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.15–16:quam Iūnō fertur terrīs magis omnibus ūnam posthabitā coluisse Samō [...].[Carthage], which Juno is said to 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.)
* (figuratively) to worship, honor, revere, reverence
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.728:coepit Aventīna Pallas in arce colīPallas began to be worshiped on the Aventine summit. (A temple on the Aventine Hill had been dedicated to Pallas, an epithet of Athena, whom the Romans equated with Minerva.)
** 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Exodus.20.5:Nōn adōrābis ea, neque colēs: 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, nor serve 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.

##### Usage notes

The words colō and excolō can be confused in usage. Their root being the Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-, originally colō 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 to colō, they are more properly rendered by excolō, since nurture and improvement are the parts of the (literal) process of land cultivation "out of" (ex-) which springs excolō, rendering the figurative and universal sense of cultivating. This means colō/cultus/cultiō can properly render cultivation strictly in the agricultural sense, while excolō/excultus/excultiō are for the senses of cultivation—improvement by means of effort or labor—in the general, non-agricultural sense.

##### Derived terms

* accolō
* circumcolō
* -cola
* colēns
* colonus
* culta
* cultē
* cultiō
* cultūra
* cultus
* excolō
* incolō
* incultus
* monticola
* praecolō
* recolō

##### Related terms

* anculus
* inquilīnus

##### Descendants

* Catalan: coldre, colre
* Old Occitan: colre
* French: cultiver
* Italian: coltivare
* → Polish: kultywować
* Portuguese: cultivar
* Romanian: cultiva
* Sicilian: curtivari
* Spanish: cultivar

### Etymology 2

From cōlum (“colander, strainer”).

#### Pronunciation

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

#### Verb

cōlō (present infinitive cōlāre, perfect active cōlāvī, supine cōlātum); first conjugation
* to filter, strain, purify

##### Derived terms

* cōlātus
* dēcōlō
* excōlō
* percōlō
* recōlō

##### Descendants

* Friulian: colâ
* Italian: colare
* Old French:
** French: couler
** Walloon: couler
* Old Leonese:
** Asturian: colar
* Old Occitan:
** Catalan: colar
** Occitan: colar
* Old Galician-Portuguese: coar
** Galician: coar
** Portuguese: coar
* Old Spanish:
** Spanish: colar
* Piedmontese: colé
* Sicilian: culari
* Venetan: cołar
* → Albanian: kulloj

### References

* “colo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “colo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* colo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* colo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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 (not colere) 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)

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin collum. Cognate with Old Spanish cuello and Old French col.

### Pronunciation

* (Galicia) IPA: /ˈkɔ.lo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈkɔ.lʊ/

### Noun

colo m (plural colos)
* neck
* lap

#### Descendants

* Fala: colu
* Galician: colo
* Portuguese: colo

### Further reading

* Universo Cantigas - "colo"

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔ.lu/
* Rhymes: -ɔlu
* Hyphenation: co‧lo

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese colo, from Latin collum (“neck”). Cognate with Galician colo, Spanish cuello, Italian collo, and French cou.

#### Alternative forms

* collo (obsolete)

#### Noun

colo m (plural colos)
* lap (upper legs of a seated person)
    Synonym: regaço
** 1905, Maria Amalia Vaz de Carvalho, “A Cigana [The Gypsy]”, in Contos e phantasias [Short stories and fantasies]‎, 2nd edition, Lisbon: Parceria Antonio Maria Pereira, page 146:A Cigana, parecendo comprehender aquellas palavras, endireitou-se, e pousando as patas no collo da menina, beijou-lhe carinhosamente as mãos...The Gypsy, appearing to comprehend those words, straightened up, and, laying her paws on the girl’s lap, kissed her hands lovingly...
* (anatomy) neck; collum (part of body connecting the head and the trunk)
* (anatomy) neck (part of a bone that connects its head to its body)
* (anatomy) cervix (necklike portion of any part)
* gap (mountain or hill pass)
    Synonyms: passo, portela, porto
* (botany) the channel of an archegonium

##### Related terms

* colar

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin cōlon (“colon”), from Ancient Greek κῶλον (kôlon, “limb”).

#### Noun

colo m (plural colos)
* Alternative form of cólon

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

colo
* first-person singular present indicative of colar

### References

* ↑ “colo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* ↑ “colo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Romanian
### Etymology

Clipping of acolo.

### Adverb

colo
* there
    Synonym: acolo

## Spanish
### Verb

colo
* first-person singular present indicative of colar (“to canonically confer (an ecclesiastical benefit)”)