crenel

English

Alternative forms

• crenelle

Etymology

From Old French crenel ( > modern French créneau), diminutive of cren (“notch”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɛnəl/

Noun

crenel (plural crenels or creneaux)

1. The space between merlons in a crenelated battlement.
   • 2000, George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam, published 2011, page 44:

     They would wake Lord Bolton and search Harrenhal from crenel to cellar, and when they did they would find the map and the dagger missing […].

Derived terms

• crenellate
• crenelled

 

Translations

space between merlons

• Bulgarian: амбразура (bg) f (ambrazura)
• Catalan: merlet (ca) m
• Esperanto: krenelo, murdento
• Finnish: ampuma-aukko (fi)
• French: créneau (fr) m
• German: Zinnenfenster n, Zinnenscharte f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: krenelering m or f

• Polish: miedza (pl) f
• Portuguese: ameia (pt) f
• Romanian: crenel (ro) n
• Swedish: skottglugg c

Old French

Noun

crenel oblique singular, m (oblique plural creneaus or creneax or creniaus or creniax or crenels, nominative singular creneaus or creneax or creniaus or creniax or crenels, nominative plural crenel)

1. Alternative form of kernel

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French créneau.

Noun

crenel n (plural creneluri)

1. crenel

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	crenel	crenelul		creneluri	crenelurile
genitive-dative	crenel	crenelului		creneluri	crenelurilor
vocative	crenelule			crenelurilor