kolonel

Afrikaans

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkʊə̯.lʊə̯ˈnɛl/

Noun

kolonel (plural kolonels)

1. colonel

Dutch

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkoː.loːˈnɛl/

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

Noun

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

Derived terms

• dubbel kolonel
• kolonel-generaal
• kolonel-majoor
• kolonel-titulair
• kolonelsbewind
• kolonelschap
• kolonelscoup
• kolonelsregime

 

Descendants

• Afrikaans: kolonel

Estonian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

kolonel (genitive koloneli, partitive koloneli)

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

Declension

Declension of kolonel (ÕS type 19/seminar, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		kolonel	kolonelid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	koloneli
genitive			kolonelide
partitive		koloneli	kolonele kolonelisid
illative		koloneli kolonelisse	kolonelidesse kolonelesse
inessive		kolonelis	kolonelides koloneles
elative		kolonelist	kolonelidest kolonelest
allative		kolonelile	kolonelidele kolonelele
adessive		kolonelil	kolonelidel kolonelel
ablative		kolonelilt	kolonelidelt kolonelelt
translative		koloneliks	kolonelideks koloneleks
terminative		kolonelini	kolonelideni
essive		kolonelina	kolonelidena
abessive		kolonelita	kolonelideta
comitative		koloneliga	kolonelidega

Compounds

• kolonelleitnant

References

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

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch kolonel.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /koˈlonɛl/ [koˈlo.nɛl]
• Rhymes: -onɛl
• Syllabification: ko‧lo‧nel

Noun

kolonèl (plural kolonel-kolonel)

1. colonel

Further reading

• 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.