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- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromδίκωλον
- English todaydicolon
Borrowed from Ancient Greek δίκωλον (díkōlon, adjective, literally “two-limbed”) (sc. e.g. μέτρον (métron)). Equivalent to di- + colon. Piecewise doublet of bicolon.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.