cole

See also: Cole, colé, and có lẽ

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəʊl/, /kɔʊl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /koʊl/
• Homophones: coal, kohl
• Rhymes: -əʊl

Etymology 1

Cole

Wikispecies From Middle English cole, col, from Old English cawel, from Germanic, from Latin caulis (“cabbage”). Cognate with Dutch kool, German Kohl. Doublet of caulis, gobi, and kale.

Noun

cole (usually uncountable, plural coles)

1. Cabbage.
2. Brassica; a plant of the Brassica genus, especially those of Brassica oleracea (rape and coleseed).

Derived terms

• coleseed
• coleslaw
• sea cole

Related terms

• colewort
• cauliflower

Translations

cabbage — see cabbage

brassica

• Ancient Greek: γογγυλίς (gongulís)
• Catalan: col (ca) f
• Finnish: kaali (fi)
• French: choux (fr)
• Greek: κράμβη (el) f (krámvi)
• Hungarian: káposzta (hu)
• Italian: ravizzone (it) m
• Latin: ērūca f
• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: brassicácea f, couve (pt) f
• Romanian: varză (ro) f
• Russian: капу́ста (ru) f (kapústa)
• Spanish: col (es) f

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

cole (plural coles)

2. (Scotland) A stack or stook of hay.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 39:

     Father saw the happening from high in a park where the hay was cut and they set the swathes in coles, and he swore out Damn't to hell! and started to run […]

Etymology 3

Noun

cole (countable and uncountable, plural coles)

1. Obsolete form of coal.

See also

• cole-prophet (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

• LCOE, -coel, ecol., coel-, Cloe, Coel, Cleo

Asturian

Verb

cole

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of colar

Chinook Jargon

Etymology

Borrowed from English cold.

Adjective

cole

1. cold

Antonyms

• waum

Noun

cole

1. winter
2. year

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “winter”): waum

Italian

Verb

cole

1. third-person singular present indicative of colere

Anagrams

• celo, celò

Latin

Verb

cole

1. second-person singular present active imperative of colō

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɔlɛ/, [ˈt͡sɔlə]

Noun

cole

1. inflection of coło:
   1. locative singular
   2. nominative/accusative dual

Middle English

Noun

cole

1. Alternative form of coule

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Noun

cole m (plural coles)

1. Alternative form of cúli

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.li/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.li/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.le/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.lɨ/

Verb

cole

1. inflection of colar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Scots

Alternative forms

• col, coll, coal, coil, kyle, koll, koil, koal, kole, kale, cuile, quile, queyle

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly from Old French coillir (Modern French cueillir) or Old Norse kollr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkol/, /ˈkɔl/, /ˈkel/
• (Central Scots)
  • (North East Central Scots)
    • (Perth) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔil/
    • (Stirling) IPA^(key): /ˈkwəil/
  • (West Central Scots)
    • (Argyll) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔil/
    • (North Ayrshire) IPA^(key): /ˈkwəil/
    • (Renfrewshire) IPA^(key): /ˈkwəil/
  • (South West Central Scots)
    • (South Ayrshire) IPA^(key): /ˈkwəil/
    • (Kirkcudbright) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔil/
• (Southern Scots) IPA^(key): /ˈkəil/
  • (Hawick) IPA^(key): /ˈkuːl/
  • (Selkirk) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔil/

Noun

cole (plural coles)

1. (archaic, agriculture) A haycock, hayrick, bundle of straw.

Verb

cole (third-person singular simple present coles, present participle colein, simple past colet, past participle colet)

1. (archaic, agriculture) To put hay in a cole.

Derived terms

• coltar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkole/ [ˈko.le]
• Rhymes: -ole
• Syllabification: co‧le

Etymology 1

Clipping of colegio.

Noun

cole m (plural coles)

1. (colloquial) school
   • 2020 April 26, “Los niños salen por fin de casa: “No me acuerdo de pedalear””, in El País‎^[1]:

     Pero como lo que más echo de menos es el cole, pues he ido con mi padre a ver la puerta del colegio, aunque estaba cerrada y ha sido un poco triste porque tengo muchísimas ganas de ver a mis amigas", cuenta Claudia, de ocho años.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Etymology 2

Verb

cole

1. inflection of colar (“to canonically confer (an ecclesiastical benefit)”):
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “cole”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Yola

Adjective

cole

1. Alternative form of coale

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 31