coronel

See also: Coronel

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹ(ə)nəl/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒɹənəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

coronel (plural coronels)

1. Alternative form of cronel
   • 1786, Francis Grose, “The Sling”, in A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, […], London: […] S. Hooper, […], →OCLC, footnote x, page 47:

     The follovving deſcription of the coronels or coronets, is given by [John] Guillim in his diſplay of heraldry.

Etymology 2

Noun

coronel (plural coronels)

1. Obsolete form of colonel.
   • 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:

     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;

References

• “coronel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• coloner

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ku.ɾuˈnɛl]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ko.ɾoˈnɛl]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Noun

coronel m (plural coronels)

1. colonel

Derived terms

• tinent coronel

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, 2024
• “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

• IPA^(key): /koɾoˈnɛl/ [ko.ɾoˈnɛɫ]
• Rhymes: -ɛl

Noun

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

1. colonel

Further reading

• “coronel”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

coronel m (plural coronels)

1. (Jersey) colonel

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed 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 *kʷel- (“going around”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ko.ɾoˈnɛw/ [ko.ɾoˈnɛʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku.ɾuˈnɛl/ [ku.ɾuˈnɛɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku.ɾuˈnɛl/ [ku.ɾuˈnɛɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ku.ɾuˈnɛ.li/

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛl, (Brazil) -ɛw
• 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): /koɾoˈnel/ [ko.ɾoˈnel]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: co‧ro‧nel

Noun

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

1. colonel

Derived terms

• teniente coronel

 

Descendants

• → Tagalog: koronel

Further reading

• “coronel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28