colic

colic

See also: còlic

English

Alternative forms

• cholick (archaic)
• cholic (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from French colique. Ultimately derived from Ancient Greek κωλικός (kōlikós, “suffering in the colon”, adj).

Pronunciation

• enPR: kŏlĭk

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• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒl.ɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɒlɪk

Noun

colic (countable and uncountable, plural colics)

1. (pathology) Severe pains that grip the abdomen or the disease that causes such pains (due to intestinal or bowel-related problems).
   • c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, OCLC 932916628, [Act III, scene i]:

     Diſeaſed nature oftentimes breakes forth, / In ſtrange eruptions, oft the teeming earth / Is with a kind of collicke pincht and vext, / By the impriſoning of vnruly wind / Within her vvombe, vvhich for enlargement ſtriuing / Shakes the old Beldame earth, and topples down / Steeples and moſſegrovvn towers.

2. Severe fussiness and crying, especially of infants with certain medical conditions.
3. A medicinal plant used to relieve such symptoms.

Derived terms

• baby colic
• colicky
• colic valve
• Devon colic
• gold colic
• lead colic
• miss-meal colic
• painter's colic
• stone colic

 

Translations

abdominal pain

Arabic: مَغْص‎ m (maḡṣ), قُولَنْج‎ (qūlanj), قَوْلِنْج‎ m (qawlinj) Bulgarian: ко́лика f (kólika), (usually plural) ко́лики f pl (kóliki) Catalan: còlic (ca) m Czech: kolika (cs) f Dutch: koliek (nl) f or n Finnish: koliikki (fi) French: colique (fr) f Galician: cólico m, torzón m German: Kolik (de) f Greek: Ancient: στρόφος m (stróphos) Icelandic: kveisa (is) f, magakveisa f Indonesian: kolik (id) Irish: aileacó m, coiliceam m, treighid f Italian: colica (it) f Japanese: 疝気 (せんき, senki) Latin: tormina (la) n pl Macedonian: ко́лика f (kólika), ко́лики f pl (kóliki), грч f (grč) Maori: haku, kōngarangara, kōrangaranga, pohopiri Persian: کولنج‎ (fa) (kolenj), قولنج‎ (fa) (qolenj) Polish: kolka (pl) f Portuguese: cólica (pt) f Russian: ко́лика (ru) f (kólika), (usually plural) ко́лики (ru) f pl (kóliki), резь (ru) f (rezʹ) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: гр̏ч m, ко̀лике pl Roman: gȑč (sh) m, kòlike (sh) pl Spanish: cólico (es) m Swedish: kolik (sv) c Tagalog: apad

Adjective

colic (not comparable)

1. Relating to the colon; colonic.

Derived terms

• colic weed (colicweed)

Translations

relating to the colon

Finnish: paksusuoli-, paksusuolen French: colique (fr) Portuguese: cólico Serbo-Croatian: količki

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Romanian

Etymology

From French colique.

Adjective

colic m or n (feminine singular colică, masculine plural colici, feminine and neuter plural colice)

1. (anatomy, relational) colon; colic

Declension

Declension of colic

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	colic		colică	colici	colice
	definite	colicul		colica	colicii	colicele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	colic		colice	colici	colice
	definite	colicului		colicei	colicilor	colicelor