cole

See also: Cole, colé, and có lẽ

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəʊl/, /kɔʊl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /koʊl/
• Homophones: coal, kohl
• Rhymes: -əʊl

Etymology 1

Cole

Wikispecies From Middle English cole, col, from Old English cawel, from Germanic, from Latin caulis (“cabbage”). Cognate with Dutch kool, German Kohl

Noun

cole (usually uncountable, plural coles)

1. Cabbage.
2. Brassica; a plant of the Brassica genus, especially those of Brassica oleracea (rape and coleseed).

Derived terms

• coleseed
• coleslaw

Related terms

• colewort

Translations

cabbage — see cabbage

brassica

• Ancient Greek: γογγυλίς (gongulís)
• Catalan: col (ca) f
• Finnish: kaali (fi)
• French: choux (fr)
• Greek: κράμβη (el) f (krámvi)
• Hungarian: káposzta (hu)
• Italian: ravizzone (it) m

• Latin: please add this translation if you can
• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: brassicácea f, couve (pt) f
• Romanian: varză (ro) f
• Russian: капу́ста (ru) f (kapústa)
• Spanish: col (es) f

Etymology 2

Noun

cole (plural coles)

1. (Scotland) A stack or stook of hay.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), page 39:

     Father saw the happening from high in a park where the hay was cut and they set the swathes in coles, and he swore out Damn't to hell! and started to run […]

Anagrams

• -coel, Cleo, Cloe

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Asturian

Verb

cole

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of colar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of colar

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Chinook Jargon

Etymology

Borrowing from English cold.

Adjective

cole

1. cold

Antonyms

• waum

Noun

cole

1. winter
2. year

Antonyms

• (winter): waum

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Latin

Verb

cole

1. second-person singular present active imperative of colō

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Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɔlɛ]

Noun

cole

1. locative singular of coło
2. nominative dual of coło
3. accusative dual of coło

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Portuguese

Verb

cole

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of colar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of colar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of colar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of colar

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Scots

Alternative forms

• col, coll, coal, coil, kyle, koll, koil, koal, kole, kale, cuile, quile, queyle

Etymology

Origin uncertain; possibly from Old French coillir (Modern French cueillir) or Old Norse kollr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkol/, /ˈkɔl/, /ˈkel/
• (Central Scots)
  • (North East Central Scots)
    • (Perth) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔil/
    • (Stirling) IPA^(key): /ˈkwəil/
  • (West Central Scots)
    • (Argyll) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔil/
    • (North Ayrshire) IPA^(key): /ˈkwəil/
    • (Renfrewshire) IPA^(key): /ˈkwəil/
  • (South West Central Scots)
    • (South Ayrshire) IPA^(key): /ˈkwəil/
    • (Kirkcudbright) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔil/
• (Southern Scots) IPA^(key): /ˈkəil/
  • (Hawick) IPA^(key): /ˈkuːl/
  • (Selkirk) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔil/

Noun

cole (plural coles)

1. (archaic, agriculture) A haycock, hayrick, bundle of straw.

Verb

cole (third-person singular present coles, present participle colein, past colet, past participle colet)

1. (archaic, agriculture) To put hay in a cole.

Derived terms

• coltar

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Spanish

Etymology

From colegio.

Noun

cole m (plural coles)

1. (colloquial) school