κόλον

Uncertain.

In modern scholarship, Beekes compares χολάς (kholás, “guts, bowels”), and Furnee connects it to χοάς (khoás, “intestines”), χόλιξ (khólix, “guts”), γάλα (gála, “milky sap”), γάλλος (gállos, “eunuch”).

Grammarians of Hellenistic times proposed relation to βουκόλος (boukólos, “tending kine”), δύσκολος (dúskolos, “difficult”), κόλαξ (kólax, “flatterer”). Other theories include κυλλός (kullós, “crooked, club-footed”) and κόλος (kólos, “docked, hornless”). No relation to κῶλον (kôlon, “limb”).^[1]

κόλον • (kólon) n (genitive κόλου); second declension

1. (anatomy) colon (last part of the digestive system)

• → Greek: κόλον (kólon) (learned)
• → Latin: colon (see there for further descendants)
• → Classical Syriac: ܩܘܠܘܢ (qōlōn)

• κόλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κόλον, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “κόλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

κόλον • (kólon)

1. inflection of κόλος (kólos):
   1. neuter nominative/vocative singular
   2. masculine/feminine/neuter accusative singular

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κόλον.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.lon/

κόλον • (kólon) n (indeclinable)

1. (anatomy) colon (last part of the digestive system)

• κολονοσκόπηση f (kolonoskópisi, “colonoscopy”)

• λεπτό έντερο n (leptó éntero, “small intestine”)
• παχύ έντερο n (pachý éntero, “large intestine”)

• Έντερο on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el