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.

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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

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

col f (plural cols)

  1. cabbage

Derived terms

  • colrave

Further reading


Dalmatian

Etymology

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

Pronoun

col

  1. that

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

Noun

col m (plural collen, diminutive colletje n)

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

Etymology 3

From French colle

Noun

col f (uncountable)

  1. (informal, Belgium) glue
Synonyms

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔl/
  • (file)
  • Homophones: colle, collent, colles, cols

Noun

col m (plural cols)

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

Derived terms

Further reading


Galician

Coles or verzas

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔl/

Noun

col f (plural coles)

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

Derived terms

  • coella
  • coíña
  • coíñeiro

References

  • 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 Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. 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

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zoll.[1]

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

References

  1. 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

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

Synonyms

  • ciorrú coil
  • corbadh

Derived terms

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.

Italian

Contraction

col

  1. contraction of con il; with the

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French col, from Latin collum.

Noun

col m (plural cols)

  1. (anatomy) the neck

Descendants


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

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

Descendants


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

Descendants


Scottish Gaelic

Noun

col m (genitive singular cola, plural colan)

  1. incest

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zoll.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tsôːl/

Noun

cȏl m (Cyrillic spelling цо̑л)

  1. inch

Declension


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

Derived terms

Descendants


Tocharian B

Adjective

col

  1. wild

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

cōl m (plural cōln)

  1. inch (unit of measure)
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