cornel

English

Etymology

From Middle English corneille, borrowed from Middle French corneille, from Vulgar Latin *cornicula, from Latin cornus (“the European cornel”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: cor‧nel

Noun

cornel (plural cornels)

European cornel fruits

1. Any tree or shrub of the dogwood subgenera, Cornus subg. Arctocrania (syn. Cornus subg. Chamaepericlymenum) or Cornus subg. Cornus, especially Cornus mas, the European cornel.
2. The cherry-like fruit of such plants, certain of which are edible.
   • 1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 292, lines 855–856:

     Cornels, and ſalvage Berries of the Wood, / And Roots and Herbs have been my meagre Food.

   • 1726, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, The Odyssey:

     Meanwhile the goddess in disdain bestows / The mast and acorn, brutal food! and strows / The fruits and cornel, as their feast, around

Synonyms

• (cherry-like fruit): cornelian cherry, cornel cherry

Derived terms

• Canadian dwarf cornel (Cornus canadensis)
• cornelian cherry (Cornus mas)
• dwarf cornel (Cornus suecica)
• European cornel (Cornus mas)
• Japanese cornel, Japanese cornelian cherry (Cornus officinalis)
• silky cornel (Cornus amomum)

Translations

tree

• Abkhaz: абгыӡыр (abgədzər)
• Albanian: thana
• Arabic: قَرَانِيَا f (qarāniyā)
• Armenian: հոն (hy) (hon)
• Aromanian: cornu m
• Azerbaijani: zoğal (az)
• Basque: zuhandor
• Bulgarian: дрян (bg) m (drjan)
• Catalan: corneller m
• Danish: kornel c
• Dutch: kornoelje (nl) f
• Finnish: kanukka (fi)
• French: cornouiller (fr) m
• Friulian: cuargnâl m, cuargnolâr
• Galician: sangomiño m, corneira (gl) f
• Georgian: შინდი (šindi)
• German: Kornelkirschenbaum m
• Greek: κρανιά (el) f (kraniá)

  Ancient: κράνεια f (kráneia)

• Hungarian: som (hu)
• Irish: conbhaiscne
• Italian: corniolo m
• Latin: cornus f
• Laz: სკინდი (sǩindi), კიზილჯუღი (ǩizilcuği)
• Lithuanian: sedula f
• Macedonian: дрен m (dren)
• Mingrelian: ბძგირი (bʒgiri), შინდი (šindi)
• Occitan: cormièr m
• Polish: dereń (pl) m
• Portuguese: corniso m
• Romanian: corn (ro) m
• Russian: кизи́л (ru) m (kizíl)
• Serbo-Croatian: дрен m, dren (sh)
• Spanish: cornejo (es) m, corno (es) m
• Swedish: kornell (sv) c
• Turkish: kızılcık (tr) m
• Venetan: cornołaro, cornołer, crognoło

fruit

• Arabic: قَرَانِيَا f (qarāniyā)
• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܙܘܓܠ f (zoġal)

  Jewish Northeastern Neo-Aramaic: הלהלוכת pl (halhalōkat)

• Armenian: հոն (hy) (hon)
• Aromanian: coarnã f
• Azerbaijani: zoğal (az)
• Bulgarian: дренка f (drenka)
• Dutch: kornoeljebes
• French: cornouille (fr) f
• Georgian: შინდი (šindi)
• German: Kornelkirsche (de) f
• Greek: κράνο (el) n (kráno)

  Ancient: κράνειον n (kráneion)

• Hungarian: som (hu)
• Italian: corniola (it) f
• Latin: cornum n
• Macedonian: дренка f (drenka)
• Mingrelian: ბძგირი (bʒgiri), შინდი (šindi)
• Occitan: còrma f
• Ottoman Turkish: قزلجق (kızılcık)
• Persian: زغال اخته (fa) (zoğâl axte)
• Polish: dereń (pl) m
• Portuguese: corniso m
• Romanian: coarnă (ro) f
• Russian: кизи́л (ru) m (kizíl)
• Serbo-Croatian: дренка f, drenka
• Spanish: corno (es) m
• Swedish: kornell (sv) c
• Udi: зокъал (zoq̇al)

See also

• dogwood

References

• Cornel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cornus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Lorenc, cloner, cronel

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

cornel

1. Alternative form of corner

Etymology 2

Noun

cornel

1. Alternative form of kernel

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle English cornel, from Anglo-Norman cornal, a dissimilated variant of cornere. Alteratively, the dissimilation occured in Welsh as a version of English corner. Similar dissimilation occurs in dresel (“dresser”), rasel (“razor”) and fesul (“at a time”).

Pronunciation

• (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔrnɛl/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔrnal/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔrnɛl/

Noun

cornel m or f (plural corneli)

1. corner

   Synonym: congl

Usage notes

This noun is usually feminine but can be masculine in South Wales.

Derived terms

• siop gornel (“corner shop”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cornel

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
cornel	gornel	nghornel	chornel

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.