col

See also: Appendix:Variations of "col"

English

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.

Translations

dip between mountain peaks

• Bulgarian: проход (bg) (prohod), седловина (sedlovina)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 山坳 (zh) (shān'ào)

• Georgian: უნაგირა (unagira)

• Italian: forcella (it) f
• Japanese: たわ (ja) (tawa), コル (ja) (koru)
• Russian: седловина (ru) (sedlovina), перева́л (ru) (perevál)

See also

• bealach
• mountain pass
• pass
• saddle
• hause

Further reading

• cols on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• CLO, Clo, LOC, LoC, OCL, loc, loc.

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Asturian

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

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Catalan

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

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Dalmatian

Etymology

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

Pronoun

col

1. that

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Dutch

Etymology 1

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

Noun

col m (plural cols, diminutive colletje n)

1. (informal, Belgium) (clothing) collar

Synonyms

• kraag

Etymology 2

Noun

col m (plural collen, diminutive colletje n)

1. (informal, Belgium) (sports) mountain pass

Synonyms

• bergpas

Etymology 3

From French colle

Noun

col f (uncountable)

1. (informal, Belgium) glue

Synonyms

• lijm

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French

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.)

Derived terms

• col de l'utérus

Related terms

• cou
• collier

Further reading

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

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Galician

Etymology

From Latin caulis.

Noun

col f (plural coles)

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

Related terms

• coliflor

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Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zoll.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

col (plural colok)

1. inch

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	col	colok
accusative	colt	colokat
dative	colnak	coloknak
instrumental	collal	colokkal
causal-final	colért	colokért
translative	collá	colokká
terminative	colig	colokig
essive-formal	colként	colokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	colban	colokban
superessive	colon	colokon
adessive	colnál	coloknál
illative	colba	colokba
sublative	colra	colokra
allative	colhoz	colokhoz
elative	colból	colokból
delative	colról	colokról
ablative	coltól	coloktól

Possessive forms of col
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	colom	coljaim
2nd person sing.	colod	coljaid
3rd person sing.	colja	coljai
1st person plural	colunk	coljaink
2nd person plural	colotok	coljaitok
3rd person plural	coljuk	coljaik

Derived terms

• colos

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Irish

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

Declension

Declension of col

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative col colanna Vocative a choil a cholanna Genitive coil colanna Dative col colanna

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an col na colanna Genitive an choil na gcolanna Dative leis an gcol don chol leis na colanna

Synonyms

• ciorrú coil
• corbadh

Derived terms

• col ceathar
• col ceathrair
• col cúigir
• col gaoil
• col seisir
• colscaradh

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
col	chol	gcol
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Italian

Contraction

col

1. contraction of con il; with the

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French col, from Latin collum.

Noun

col m (plural cols)

1. (anatomy) the neck

Descendants

• French: cou, col

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Old English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koːl/

Adjective

cōl (comparative cōlra, superlative cōlost)

1. cool (not hot or warm)

Descendants

• Middle English: col, coul, cool
  • Scots: cule, cuill, kuil
  • English: cool

Declension

Weak							Strong
case	singular			plural			case	singular			plural
	m	n	f					m	n	f	m	n	f
nominative	cōla	cōle	cōle	cōlan			nom.	cōl			cōle	cōl	cōla, -e
accusative	cōlan	cōle	cōlan				acc.	cōlne	cōl	cōle	cōle	cōl	cōla, -e
genitive	cōlan			cōlra, cōlena			gen.	cōles	cōles	cōlre	cōlra
dative	cōlan			cōlum			dat.	cōlum	cōlum	cōlre	cōlum
							instrumental	cōle

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kol/

Noun

col n (nominative plural colu)

1. coal

Declension

Declension of col (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	col	colu
accusative	col	colu
genitive	coles	cola
dative	cole	colum

Descendants

• Middle English: cole
  • English: coal

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Old French

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

Related terms

• coler

Descendants

• Middle French: col
  • French: cou, col
• Norman: co
• Walloon: cô

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Scottish Gaelic

Noun

col m (genitive singular cola, plural colan)

1. incest

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zoll.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tsôːl/

Noun

cȏl m (Cyrillic spelling цо̑л)

1. inch

Declension

Declension of col

	singular	plural
nominative	col	colovi
genitive	cola	colova
dative	colu	colovima
accusative	col	colove
vocative	cole	colovi
locative	colu	colovima
instrumental	col	colovima

Related terms

• ȉnč, pȁlac

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Spanish

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

Synonyms

• berza f
• repollo m

Derived terms

• coliflor f
• colinabo m

Descendants

• → Taos: kùli’ína

Related terms

• brécol

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Vilamovian

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

cōl m (plural cōln)

1. inch (unit of measure)