col

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

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.

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Anagrams[edit]

Asturian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Contraction[edit]

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

  1. with the

Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

col f (plural cols)

  1. cabbage

Dalmatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronoun[edit]

col

  1. that

Dutch[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

col m (plural cols, diminutive colletje n)

  1. (informal, Belgium) (clothing) collar
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Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

col m (plural collen, diminutive colletje n)

  1. (informal, Belgium) (sports) mountain pass
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Etymology 3[edit]

From French colle

Noun[edit]

col f (uncountable)

  1. (informal, Belgium) glue
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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

col m (plural cols)

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

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Galician[edit]

Coles or verzas

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Etymology[edit]

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese col (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from an older unattested *coule, from Latin caulis. Cognate with Portuguese couve and Spanish col.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

col f (plural coles)

  1. collard; wild mustard, wild cabbage; kale; Brassica oleracea var. acephala
    Synonyms: coella, verza

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References[edit]

  • “col” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • “coles” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “col” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “col” in Santamarina, Antón (dir.), Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja: Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (v 4.0). Santiago: ILG.
  • “col” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1991–1997). Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. Madrid: Gredos, s.v. col.

Hungarian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from German Zoll.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

col (plural colok)

  1. inch

Declension[edit]

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[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Tótfalusi István, Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára. Tinta Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2005, →ISBN

Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

col m (genitive singular coil, nominative plural colanna)

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

Declension[edit]

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

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Mutation[edit]

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.

Italian[edit]

Contraction[edit]

col

  1. contraction of con il; with the

Middle French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old French col, from Latin collum.

Noun[edit]

col m (plural cols)

  1. (anatomy) the neck

Descendants[edit]

Old English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

cōl (comparative cōlra, superlative cōlost)

  1. cool (not hot or warm)

Descendants[edit]

Declension[edit]
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[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

col n (nominative plural colu)

  1. coal
Declension[edit]
Declension of col (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative col colu
accusative col colu
genitive coles cola
dative cole colum

Descendants[edit]

Old French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin collum.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

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

  1. (anatomy) neck

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Descendants[edit]

Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Noun[edit]

col m (genitive singular cola, plural colan)

  1. incest

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from German Zoll.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

cȏl m (Cyrillic spelling цо̑л)

  1. inch

Declension[edit]

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

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Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

col f (plural coles)

  1. cabbage

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Descendants[edit]

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Vilamovian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

cōl m (plural cōln)

  1. inch (unit of measure)
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