different between spear vs coronel

English

Etymology

From Middle English spere, sperre, spear, from Old English spere, from Proto-Germanic *speru (compare West Frisian spear, Dutch speer, German Speer, Old Norse spj?r), related to *sparrô (compare Middle Dutch sparre (“rafter”), Old Norse sparri (“spar, rafter”), sperra (“rafter, beam”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sperH- (compare Latin sparus (“short spear”), Albanian ferrë (“thorn, thornbush”)). See park.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sp???(?)/
• (Canada, US) IPA^(key): /sp??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

spear (plural spears)

1. A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
2. (now chiefly historical) A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 187:

     Two of the four spears came directly from Lady Margaret's staff. One was her great-nephew Maurice St John […].

3. A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
4. (ice hockey) An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
5. (wrestling) In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection.
6. A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
7. The feather of a horse.
8. The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
9. A long, thin strip from a vegetable.

   asparagus and broccoli spears

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• assegai, assagai, assagaie, assagay, assegay, azagaia, hassagay, hassaguay, zagaie, zagaye
• atlatl
• bayonet
• harpoon
• javelin
• joust
• lance
• pike
• spit, used to grill food on fire
• woomera

Verb

spear (third-person singular simple present spears, present participle spearing, simple past and past participle speared)

1. (transitive) To pierce with a spear.
2. (transitive, by extension) To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object; to make a thrusting motion that catches an object on the tip of a long device.
   • 2003, Stan Fischler, Shirley Fischler, Who's who in Hockey

     Former teammate Derek Sanderson recalls that Maki hit Ted from behind as Green was clearing the puck from the Boston zone. Green turned to knock Maki down, but Maki speared him as he rose from the ice.

3. (gridiron football) To tackle an opponent by ramming into them with one's helmet.
4. (intransitive) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.

Translations

Adjective

spear (not comparable)

1. Male.

   a spear counterpart

   • 2018, A Very English Scandal (TV series) (episode 1)

     When I was young, I was so desperate I'd go looking on the spear side.

2. Pertaining to male family members.

   the spear side of the family

Antonyms

• distaff

Anagrams

• Asper, Earps, Pears, Peras, RESPA, Rapes, Spera, apers, apres, après, aprés, as per, asper, pares, parse, pears, prase, presa, præs., rapes, reaps, sarpe, spare

Middle English

Noun

spear

1. Alternative form of spere (“spear”)

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian spere, spiri, from Proto-Germanic *speru.

Noun

spear c (plural spearen, diminutive spearke)

1. spear

Further reading

• “spear”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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.