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coloner

English

Etymology

colony +? -er?

Noun

coloner (plural coloners)

  1. (obsolete) A colonist.
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Anagrams

  • Coronel, coronel

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colonel

English

Alternative forms

  • coronel (obsolete)
  • COL., Col. (abbreviation)

Etymology

First attested 1548, from Middle French coronnel, from Old Italian colonnello (the officer of a small company of soldiers (column) that marched at the head of a regiment), from compagna colonnella (little column company), from Latin columna (pillar), originally a collateral form of columen, contraction culmen (a pillar, top, crown, summit), o-grade form from a Proto-Indo-European *kelH- (to rise, be elevated, be prominent). See hill, holm.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?k??n?l/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?k?n?l/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)n?l
  • Homophone: kernel

The anomalous pronunciation is probably a holdover of the pronunciation of the earlier, obsolete form coronel.

Noun

colonel (plural colonels)

  1. A commissioned officer in an armed military organization, typically the highest rank before flag officer ranks (generals). It is generally found in armies, air forces or naval infantry (marines).
    • The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.

Usage notes

  • When used as a title, it is always capitalized.

Related terms

  • bird colonel
  • colonel-general
  • lieutenant-colonel
  • royal colonel

Translations

Verb

colonel (third-person singular simple present colonels, present participle coloneling or colonelling, simple past and past participle coloneled or colonelled)

  1. (intransitive) To act as or like a colonel.

French

Alternative forms

  • colonnel, coronel, coronnel (obsolete)

Etymology

From Italian colonnello. Compare Middle French coronel, borrowed earlier from the same source. See English colonel for more.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k?.l?.n?l/

Noun

colonel m (plural colonels, feminine colonelle)

  1. A colonel, highest commissioned officer below generals.
  2. An ice cream dessert consisting of lemon sherbet and vodka.

Related terms

  • colonel-général
  • lieutenant-colonel

Further reading

  • “colonel” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French colonel, from Middle French coronel, which see.

Noun

colonel m (plural colonei)

  1. A colonel (military officer above lieutenant-colonel and below all generals)

Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Kolonel.

Noun

colonel n (uncountable)

  1. A glyph (A letter in a type of font.)

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