different between coronel vs colonel

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?k??(?)n?l/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k???n?l/

Noun

coronel (plural coronels)

1. The head of a spear; a cronel.

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2. Obsolete form of colonel.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Ireland:

     Whereupon the said coronel did absolutely yield himself and the fort, with all therein, and craved only mercy, which it being not thought good to show them, both for danger of themselves, if being saved, they should afterwards join with the Irish, and also for terror to the Irish, who were much emboldened by those foreign succours, and also put in hope of more ere long;

Anagrams

• coloner

Catalan

Etymology

From Italian colonnello, diminutive of colonna, from Latin columna.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ko.?o?n?l/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ku.?u?n?l/

Noun

coronel m (plural coronels)

1. colonel

Further reading

• “coronel” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “coronel” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “coronel” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “coronel” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Pronunciation

Noun

coronel m (plural coroneis, feminine coronela, feminine plural coronelas)

1. colonel

Further reading

• “coronel” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

coronel m (plural coronels)

1. (Jersey) colonel

Portuguese

Etymology

From Middle French coronel, from Italian colonnello (“the officer of a small company of soldiers (column) that marched at the head of a regiment”), from compagnia colonnella (“little column company”), from Latin columna (“pillar”), from columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”), o-grade form from Proto-Indo-European *k?el- (“going around”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?ko.?o.?n?w/
• Rhymes: -?w
• Hyphenation: co?ro?nel

Noun

coronel m (plural coronéis, feminine coronela, feminine plural coronelas)

1. colonel (commissioned office in the armed services)
2. (Brazil) a politician in rural areas

Related terms

• coronelato, coronelismo

Descendants

• Kadiwéu: goloneegi

Spanish

Etymology

Probably from Middle French colonel, from Italian colonnello, or alternatively from Old Occitan coronel, from a diminutive of Latin columna, becoming influenced by corona.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko?o?nel/, [ko.?o?nel]
• Hyphenation: co?ro?nel

Noun

coronel m (plural coroneles, feminine coronela, feminine plural coronelas)

1. colonel

Descendants

• ? Tagalog: koronel

Further reading

• “coronel” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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.)