coli

coli

See also: colí and çoli

English

Escherichia coli

Etymology

Ellipsis of Bacterium coli or Bacillus coli, obsolete taxonomic names of the species (now called Escherichia coli). The word itself derives from Latin colī, genitive of colon (“colon, large intestine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊ.laɪ/

Noun

coli (plural coli)

1. (often attributive, bacteriology) Escherichia coli, a Gram-negative bacterium commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms.
   • 1939 January, Thomas T. Mackie, “The Specificity of the Agglutinin Reaction for Shigella dysenteriae: II. Agglutinin Absorption Relationships between Shigella dysenteriae and Escherichia coli”, in Journal of Bacteriology‎, volume 37, number 1, PMID 16560187, page 47:

     Five of the strains of E. coli are related to only one of the S. dysenteriae strains. Three of the coli are related to two of the strains of S. dysenteriae, four are related to three of the S. dysenteriae strains, and one, A-H6, is related to all.

   Synonym: colibacillus

Derived terms

• colibacillosis
• colibacilluria
• colibacillus
• coliphage
• colisepticemia

 

Related terms

• colicine
• coliform

 

Translations

Escherichia coli

Chinese: Mandarin: 大腸桿菌／大肠杆菌 (zh) (dàcháng gǎnjūn) Finnish: kolibakteeri (fi) French: coli (fr) m, colibacille (fr) m German: Kolibakterium n, Kolibakterie f Hungarian: kólibaktérium, kólibacilus Italian: colibacillo (it) m Polish: pałeczka okrężnicy (pl) f Russian: please add this translation if you can Spanish: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• Clio, Coil, coil, loci

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Catalan

Verb

coli

1. first-person singular present subjunctive form of colar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive form of colar
3. third-person singular imperative form of colar

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Indonesian

Etymology 1

Javanese ngocok + Javanese peli. Equivalent to blend of mengocok +‎ pelir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃo.li/
• Hyphenation: co‧li

Noun

coli

1. (slang) masturbation

Synonyms

• masturbasi
• onani
• rancap

Verb

coli

1. (slang) to masturbate

Synonyms

• masturbasi
• onani
• merancap

Etymology 2

From Malay coli, culi, probably from Hindi चोली (colī).

Noun

coli

1. (obsolete) bra

Synonyms

• beha
• bra
• kutang

Etymology 3

From Alas-Kluet Batak coli.

Noun

coli

1. (dialect) ripe jackfruit.

Further reading

• “coli” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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Italian

Verb

coli

1. inflection of colare:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• Clio

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.liː/, [ˈkoːlʲiː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.li/, [ˈkɔːli]

Noun

cōlī n

1. genitive singular of cōlum (“colander, strainer”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.liː/, [ˈkoːlʲiː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.li/, [ˈkɔːli]

Noun

cōlī n

1. genitive singular of cōlum (“colon (member or part of a verse or poem)”)
2. genitive singular of cōlon (“colon (member or part of a verse or poem)”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.liː/, [ˈkɔlʲiː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.li/, [ˈkɔːli]

Noun

colī n

1. genitive singular of colon (“colon (large intestine)”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.liː/, [ˈkɔlʲiː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈko.li/, [ˈkɔːli]

Verb

colī

1. present passive infinitive of colō

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Malay

Etymology

Probably from Hindi चोली (colī).

Noun

coli (Jawi spelling چولي‎, plural coli-coli, informal 1st possessive coliku, 2nd possessive colimu, 3rd possessive colinya)

1. bra

Descendants

• Indonesian: coli