coronel

coronel (plural coronels)

1. The head of a spear; a cronel.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Grose to this entry?)

2. Obsolete form of colonel.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Ireland:

     Whereupon the said coronel did absolutely yield himself and the fort, with all therein, and craved only mercy, which it being not thought good to show them, both for danger of themselves, if being saved, they should afterwards join with the Irish, and also for terror to the Irish, who were much emboldened by those foreign succours, and also put in hope of more ere long;

• coloner

From Italian colonnello, diminutive of colonna, from Latin columna.

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ko.ɾoˈnɛl/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ku.ɾuˈnɛl/

coronel m (plural coronels)

1. colonel

• “coronel” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “coronel” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “coronel” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “coronel” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

coronel m (plural coroneis, feminine coronela, feminine plural coronelas)

1. colonel

• “coronel” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

coronel m (plural coronels)

1. (Jersey) colonel

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

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌko.ɾo.ˈnɛw/
• Rhymes: -ɛw
• Hyphenation: co‧ro‧nel

coronel m (plural coronéis, feminine coronela, feminine plural coronelas)

1. colonel (commissioned office in the armed services)
2. (Brazil) a politician in rural areas

• coronelato, coronelismo

• Kadiwéu: goloneegi

Probably from Middle French colonel, from Italian colonnello, or alternatively from Old Occitan coronel, from a diminutive of Latin columna, becoming influenced by corona.

• IPA^(key): /koɾoˈnel/
• Hyphenation: co‧ro‧nel

coronel m (plural coroneles, feminine coronela, feminine plural coronelas)

1. colonel

• “coronel” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.