Parsing inflected forms may not always work as expected. If the following does not give the correct word, try Latin Words or Perseus.
2. cōlo, āvi, ātum, āre, v. a. [colum], to filter, strain, to clarify, purify (post-Aug.): ceram, Col. 9, 16, 1: mel, id. 12, 11, 1: vinum sportā palmeā, Pall. Febr. 27: sucum linteo, Plin. 25, 13, 103, § 164: thymum cribro, Col. 7, 8, 7: aliquid per linteum, Scrib. Comp. 271: ad colum, Veg. 2, 28, 19: per colum, Apic. 4, 2: aurum, App. Flor. p. 343, 20: terra colans, Plin. 31, 3, 23, § 38: faex colata, id. 31, 8, 44, § 95.
Poet.: amnes inductis retibus, i. e. to spread out a fish-net, Manil. 5, 193.
Hence, cōlātus, a, um, P. a., cleansed, purified (post-class.): nitor (beryllorum), Tert. Anim. 9.
- B. Trop.: certiora et colatiora somniari, Tert. Anim. 48.
cōlon or cōlum, i, n. (cōlus, i, m., Ser. Samm. 31, 1), = κῶλον (a member).
- I. The colon or great gut (the largest of the intestines), Plin. 11, 37, 79, § 202.
Esp., as the part affected by the colic: coli tormentum, Plin. 22, 22, 37, § 79: coli dolor, Scrib. Comp. 122.
Hence,
- B. A disease of the colon, the colic, Plin. 20, 15, 57, § 162; 31, 9, 45, § 102; Scrib. Comp. l. l.; Ser. Samm. l. l.
- II. Transf., a member of a verse (pure Lat. membrum), * Quint. 9, 4, 78; of a poem, Aug. ap. Don. Vit. Verg. c. 12.
1. cōlum, i, n.
- I. A vessel for straining, a strainer, colander, Cato, R. R. 11, 2; Verg. G. 2, 242; Col. 11, 2, 70; 12, 19, 4; 12, 38, 7; Plin. 36, 23, 52, § 173; App. M. 3, p. 130, 20; Scrib. Comp. 156 al.: colum nivarium, for cooling wine, Mart. 14, 103 inscr.; cf. id. 14, 104; Dig. 34, 2, 2.
- * II. Poet., a bow-net, a net of wicker-work for catching fish, a wear, Aus. Ep. 4, 57; cf. 2. colo.