cola

See also: Cola, COLA, colá, colà, and -cola

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkəʊ.lə/
  • Rhymes: -əʊlə
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkoʊlə/
  • Rhymes: -oʊlə

Etymology 1

From a Niger-Congo language, compare Temne kola, Mandinka kola. The beverage "Coca-Cola" was what made the term widely known.

Alternative forms

  • (the plant or nut): kola

Noun

cola (countable and uncountable, plural colas)

  1. The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts.
  2. A beverage or a drink made with kola nut flavoring, caramel and carbonated water.
Translations
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See also

Etymology 2

See colon.

Noun

cola

  1. (obsolete) plural of colon

Etymology 3

Noun

cola (plural colas)

  1. A cluster of buds on a cannabis plant.

Anagrams

Asturian

Etymology

From a contraction of the preposition con (“with”) + feminine singular article la (“the”).

Contraction

cola f (masculine col, neuter colo, masculine plural colos, feminine plural coles)

  1. with the

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin colla, from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”). Compare French colle, Spanish and Portuguese cola, Italian colla.

Noun

cola f (plural coles)

  1. glue

Etymology 2

Noun

cola f (plural coles)

  1. cola

Etymology 3

Verb

cola

  1. third-person singular present indicative form of colar
  2. second-person singular imperative form of colar

Dutch

Etymology

From English cola, from the drink Coca Cola.

Pronunciation

Noun

cola m (plural cola's, diminutive colaatje n)

  1. cola (drink)
  2. kola (nut)

Fijian

Verb

cola

  1. carry (on the shoulders)

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkoː.la/

Verb

cola

  1. inflection of colare:
    1. third-person singular present
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

cōlā

  1. first-person singular present active imperative of cōlō

References

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.lɐ/

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin colla, from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”). Compare Spanish cola, French colle, Italian colla.

Noun

cola f (plural colas)

  1. glue (sticky adhesive substance)
  2. (Brazil, slang) a copy of content used to help to complete a school or university test, often illegally

Etymology 2

From Vulgar Latin coda, from Latin cauda. Doublet of cauda, a borrowing.

Noun

cola f (plural colas)

  1. tail

Etymology 3

From a Niger-Congo language, or from Sudanese.

Noun

cola f (plural colas)

  1. (botany) kola (tree or fruit):

Spanish

Cola de un león (a lion's tail).
Cola de avión (aircraft tail).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkola/

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin coda, from Latin cauda, or from its diminutive caudula. Cognate to French queue and Italian coda.

Noun

cola f (plural colas)

  1. (anatomy) tail
  2. (aviation) empennage, aircraft tail
  3. (astronomy) coma (a comet's tail)
  4. line (US); queue (UK)
  5. (computing, informatics) queue
  6. (slightly vulgar) ass, the buttocks
  7. (Chile, LGBT, sometimes pejorative) gayboy, homo
Synonyms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Vulgar Latin colla, from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla). Cognate to Portuguese cola, Italian colla, French colle.

Noun

cola f (plural colas)

  1. (adhesive) glue
Synonyms
Derived terms
  • cola fría

Etymology 3

From a Niger-Congo language.

Noun

cola f (plural colas)

  1. (drink) cola (short form of bebida de cola)
  2. (nut) kola
  3. (tree) kola tree
Synonyms
  • (drink): bebida de cola (also der. term)
Derived terms
  • (nut): bebida de cola (also syn.)
  • (nut): sabor cola

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