kolonel

From Dutch kolonel, from Middle French coronel, from Italian colonnello.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkʊə̯.lʊə̯ˈnɛl/

kolonel (plural kolonels)

1. colonel

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌkoː.loːˈnɛl/

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• Hyphenation: ko‧lo‧nel
• Rhymes: -ɛl

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

• Afrikaans: kolonel

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• IPA^(key): /ˈkolonel/,
• Hyphenation: ko‧lo‧nel

kolonel (genitive koloneli, partitive koloneli)

1. colonel (the highest rank of senior officer in the Estonian and other Defence Forces after lieutenant colonel)

• kolonelleitnant

• kolonel in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “kolonel”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Borrowed from Dutch kolonel.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /koˈlonɛl/
• Rhymes: -onɛl
• Syllabification: ko‧lo‧nel

kolonèl (plural kolonel-kolonel)

1. colonel

• kolonel on the Indonesian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^id
• “kolonel” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.