col
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French col, from Latin collum (“neck”).
Pronunciation
Noun
col (plural cols)
- (geography) A dip on a mountain ridge between two peaks.
- Coordinate terms: bealach, mountain pass, pass, saddle, hause
- 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.
- (meteorology) A pressure region between two anticyclones and two low-pressure regions.
Translations
Further reading
col on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
col (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
mountain pass on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
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)
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin caulis, caulem (“stalk, stem”), from Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós, “stem of a plant”).
Pronunciation
Noun
col f (plural cols)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “col” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “col”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “col” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “col” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dalmatian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *cu illu < Latin eccum illum. Compare Italian quello, Romanian acel, Old French cil, Spanish aquel.
Pronoun
col
Dutch
Etymology 1
From French col (“collar”), from Latin collum (“neck”).
Noun
col m (plural cols, diminutive colletje n)
Synonyms
Etymology 2
Noun
col m (plural collen, diminutive colletje n)
Synonyms
Etymology 3
Noun
col f (uncountable)
Synonyms
French
Etymology
From Old French col, from Latin collum (“neck”). Doublet of cou.
Pronunciation
Noun
col m (plural cols)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “col”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Galician-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
Noun
col f (plural coles)
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- Template:R:DDGM
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “coles”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “couues”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Template:R:DDLG
- Template:R:TILG
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “col”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Hungarian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
col (plural colok)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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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 |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
colé | coloké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
coléi | colokéi |
Possessive forms of col | ||
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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
References
- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Irish
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
Noun
col m (genitive singular coil, nominative plural colanna)
Declension
Synonyms
Derived terms
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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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
Contraction
col
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French col, from Latin collum.
Noun
col m (plural cols)
Descendants
Old English
Etymology 1
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From Proto-Germanic *kōluz, *kōlaz. Cognate with Old High German kuoli.
Pronunciation
Adjective
cōl (comparative cōlra, superlative cōlost)
- cool (not hot or warm)
Declension
Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | cōl | cōl | cōl |
Accusative | cōlne | cōle | cōl |
Genitive | cōles | cōlre | cōles |
Dative | cōlum | cōlre | cōlum |
Instrumental | cōle | cōlre | cōle |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | cōle | cōla, cōle | cōl |
Accusative | cōle | cōla, cōle | cōl |
Genitive | cōlra | cōlra | cōlra |
Dative | cōlum | cōlum | cōlum |
Instrumental | cōlum | cōlum | cōlum |
Descendants
Etymology 2
From Proto-Germanic *kulą. Cognate with Old Frisian kole, Old High German kolo, Old Norse kol.
Pronunciation
Noun
col n (nominative plural colu)
Declension
Descendants
Old French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
col oblique singular, m (oblique plural cous or cox or cols, nominative singular cous or cox or cols, nominative plural col)
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Descendants
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
col m (genitive singular cola, plural colan)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
cȏl m (Cyrillic spelling цо̑л)
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Spanish
Etymology
From Latin caulis, caulem (“stalk, stem”), from Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós, “stem of a plant”).
Pronunciation
Noun
col f (plural coles)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Taos: kùli’ína
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Tocharian B
Adjective
col
Vilamovian
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
cōl m (plural cōln)
- inch (unit of measure)
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