The story
- Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromἰσόκωλον
- English todayisocolon
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἰσόκωλον (isókōlon), neuter of ἰσόκωλος (isókōlos), from ἴσος (ísos, “equal”) and κῶλον (kôlon, “member, clause”). By surface analysis, iso- + colon.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.