coronel

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ko.ɾoˈnɛl/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ku.ɾuˈnɛl/

Noun

coronel m (plural coronels)

1. colonel

Noun

coronel m (plural coronels)

1. (Jersey) colonel

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 *kʷel- (“going around”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌko.ɾo.ˈnɛw/
• Rhymes: -ɛw

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

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/

Noun

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

1. colonel