kols

Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Latin cōlon (“a member of a verse of poem”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek κῶλον (kôlon, “a member, limb, clause, part of a verse”).

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kols m (1st declension)

1. (orthography) colon (the punctuation mark : which usually indicates a longer pause)

   kols ir ne vien gramatiski, bet arī jēdzieniski nosacīta pieturzīme... tas arvien norāda uz sekojošu paskaidrojumu ― the colon is a punctuation mark conditioned not only grammatically, but also conceptually... it always points to a following explanation

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Punctuation marks (pieturzīmes):

kols

1. indefinite genitive singular of kol
2. indefinite genitive plural of kol

• klos, loks, solk