cola

Meaning

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

colon

  1. The punctuation mark ⟨:⟩.
  2. (rare) The triangular colon (especially in context of not being able to type the actual triangular colon).
  3. (rhetoric) A rhetorical figure consisting of a clause which is grammatically, but not logically, complete.
  4. A clause or group of clauses written as a line, or taken as a standard of measure in ancient manuscripts or texts.

Frequency

C2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkəʊ.lə/
Etymology

In summary

From a Niger-Congo language, compare Temne kola, Mandinka kola. The beverage "Coca-Cola" was what made the term widely known, and popularized the spelling with c instead of k.

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