different between coroner vs coronel

English

Etymology

From Middle English coroner, from Old French curuner, from Medieval Latin custos placitorum coronae (“guardian of the crown's pleas”). The function was originally to protect royal properties.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?.??.n?(?)/
• Rhymes: -???n?(?)

Noun

coroner (plural coroners)

1. A public official who presides over an inquest into unnatural deaths, cases of treasure trove, and debris from shipwrecks.
2. (Canada, US) A medical doctor who performs autopsies and determines time and cause of death from a scientific standpoint.
3. The administrative head of a sheading.

Hyponyms

• (who presides over an inquest): medical examiner, ME (if he or she performs autopsies)

Synonyms

• autopsier (rare)

Translations

Further reading

• coroner on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• crooner

French

Noun

coroner m (plural coroners)

1. coroner (in English-speaking countries)

Latin

Verb

cor?ner

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of cor?n?

Middle English

Alternative forms

• corowner, crouner, crowner, coronour, coronier, corounere

Etymology

From Old French curuner; equivalent to coroune +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku?ru?ne?r/, /?kru?ne?r/, /kuru?ne?r/, /?kurun?r/

Noun

coroner (plural coroners)

1. A (medieval) coroner (a royal officer who helps administer law and the courts)

Descendants

• English: coroner (obsolete crowner)
• Scots: crownar (obsolete)

References

• “cor?un???r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-20.

Old French

Alternative forms

• coroner
• courouner
• corouner

Etymology

From Latin cor?n?re, present active infinitive of cor?n? (“I crown”).

Verb

coroner

1. to crown (make into a monarch)

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

• French: couronner

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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Grose to this entry?)

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

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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.