kolonel

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch kolonel.

Noun

kolonel (plural kolonels)

1. colonel

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Dutch

Etymology

First attested 1548, 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 compagna colonnella (“little column company”), from Latin columna (“pillar”), originally a collateral form of columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”), o-grade form from a Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“going around”).

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: ko‧lo‧nel

Noun

kolonel m (plural kolonels, diminutive kolonelletje n)

1. colonel, the military rank
2. (printing, dated) A size of type between insertio and petit, standardized as 7 point.

Derived terms

• dubbel kolonel

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Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from French colonel or English colonel.

Noun

kolonel (genitive koloneli, partitive koloneli)

1. colonel

Inflection

Declension of kolonel (ÕS type 19/seminar, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		kolonel	kolonelid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	koloneli
genitive			kolonelide
partitive		koloneli	kolonele kolonelisid
illative		koloneli kolonelisse	kolonelidesse kolonelesse
inessive		kolonelis	kolonelides koloneles
elative		kolonelist	kolonelidest kolonelest
allative		kolonelile	kolonelidele kolonelele
adessive		kolonelil	kolonelidel kolonelel
ablative		kolonelilt	kolonelidelt kolonelelt
translative		koloneliks	kolonelideks koloneleks
terminative		kolonelini	kolonelideni
essive		kolonelina	kolonelidena
abessive		kolonelita	kolonelideta
comitative		koloneliga	kolonelidega

Derived terms

• kolonelleitnant