col

Etymology

Borrowed from French col, from Latin collum (“neck”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɒl/

Noun

col (plural cols)

1. (geography) A dip on a mountain ridge between two peaks.
   • 1999, Harish Kapadia, “Ascents in the Panch Chuli Group”, in Across Peaks & Passes in Kumaun Himalaya, New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 136:

     We spent half an hour on the summit before returning to our camp, where we stuffed the frozen tent and all the gear into our packs and started the long descent of the southwest ridge to rejoin Harish and others who were still encamped on the col at the foot of it.

2. (meteorology) A pressure region between two anticyclones and two low-pressure regions.

Further reading

• cols on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• CLO, Clo, LOC, LoC, OCL, loc, loc.

Etymology

From a contraction of the preposition con (“with”) + masculine singular article el (“the”).

Contraction

col m (feminine cola, neuter colo, masculine plural colos, feminine plural coles)

1. with the

Etymology

From Latin caulis, caulem (“stalk, stem”), from Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós, “stem of a plant”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔl/

Noun

col f (plural cols)

1. cabbage

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *cu illu < Latin eccum illum. Compare Italian quello, Romanian acel, Old French cil, Spanish aquel.

Pronoun

col

1. that

Etymology 1

From French col (“collar”), from Latin collum (“neck”).

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

From French colle

Etymology

From Old French col, from Latin collum (“neck”). Doublet of cou.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔl/

• audio

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• Homophones: colle, collent, colles, cols

Noun

col m (plural cols)

1. collar
2. col
3. neck (now especially of objects, vases etc.)

Further reading

• “col” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

From Latin caulis.

Noun

col f (plural coles)

1. collard; wild mustard, wild cabbage; Brassica oleracea var. acephala

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zoll.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sol]
• Hyphenation: col

Noun

col (plural colok)

1. inch

References

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kɔl̪ˠ]

Noun

col m (genitive singular coil, nominative plural colanna)

1. prohibition
2. sin, lust
3. violation
4. dislike
5. incest
6. relation, relationship

Mutation

Contraction

col

1. contraction of con il; with the

Etymology

From Old French col, from Latin collum.

Noun

col m (plural cols)

1. (anatomy) the neck

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *kōluz, *kōlaz. Cognate with Old High German kuoli.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *kulą. Cognate with Old Frisian kole, Old High German kolo, Old Norse kol.

Etymology

From Latin collum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔl/
• Rhymes: -ɔl

Noun

col m (oblique plural cous or cox or cols, nominative singular cous or cox or cols, nominative plural col)

1. (anatomy) neck

Noun

col m (genitive singular cola, plural colan)

1. incest

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zoll.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tsôːl/

Noun

cȏl m (Cyrillic spelling цо̑л)

1. inch

Etymology

From Latin caulis, caulem (“stalk, stem”), from Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós, “stem of a plant”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kol/
• Rhymes: -ol

Noun

col f (plural coles)

1. cabbage

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

cōl m (plural cōln)

1. inch (unit of measure)