col
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɒl/
Noun
col (plural cols)
- (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.
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- (meteorology) A pressure region between two anticyclones and two low-pressure regions.
Translations
See also
Asturian
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin caulis, caulem (“stalk, stem”), from Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós, “stem of a plant”).
Derived terms
- colrave
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.
- “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
Dutch
Synonyms
Synonyms
French
Etymology
From Old French col, from Latin collum (“neck”). Doublet of cou.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “col” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
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)
- collard; wild mustard, wild cabbage; kale; Brassica oleracea var. acephala
- Synonyms: coella, verza
Derived terms
- coella
- coíña
- coíñeiro
Related terms
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.
- Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1991–1997). Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. Madrid: Gredos, s.v. col.
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈt͡sol]
- Hyphenation: col
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 |
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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kɔl̪ˠ]
Noun
Declension
Synonyms
- ciorrú coil
- corbadh
Derived terms
- col ceathar
- col ceathrair
- col cúigir
- col gaoil
- col seisir
- colscaradh
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French col, from Latin collum.
Old English
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *kōluz, *kōlaz. Cognate with Old High German kuoli.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koːl/
Declension
Weak | Strong | ||||||||||||
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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/
Declension
Old French
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)
Related terms
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin caulis, caulem (“stalk, stem”), from Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós, “stem of a plant”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kol/
- Rhymes: -ol
Descendants
- → Taos: kùli’ína