different between coronet vs coronel

English

Etymology

From Middle French couronnette, from Old French coronete, diminutive of corone (“crown”), from Latin corona.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

coronet (plural coronets)

1. A small crown, such as is worn by a noble.
2. The ring of tissue between a horse's hoof and its leg.
3. The traditional lowest regular commissioned officer rank in the cavalry.
4. Any of several hummingbirds in the genus Boissonneaua.
5. A species of moth, Craniophora ligustri.

Synonyms

(junior commissioned officer):

• ensign (infantry equivalent of the cavalry coronet)
• second lieutenant (OF-1), first NATO commissioned officer grade above OF-0 trainee officer

Translations

Anagrams

• Crotone

Latin

Verb

cor?net

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of cor?n?

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.