col

• IPA^(key): /kɒl/

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• Rhymes: -ɒl

Borrowed from French col, from Latin collum (“neck”). Doublet of collum.

col (plural cols)

1. (geography) A dip on a mountain ridge between two peaks.

   Synonym: (South Africa) nek

   Coordinate terms: bealach, mountain pass, pass, saddle, hause

   • 1999, Harish Kapadia, “Ascents in the Panch Chuli Group”, in Across Peaks & Passes in Kumaun Himalaya, New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 136:

     We spent half an hour on the summit before returning to our camp, where we stuffed the frozen tent and all the gear into our packs and started the long descent of the southwest ridge to rejoin Harish and others who were still encamped on the col at the foot of it.

   • 2012, Paul Lee, Vignettes: Musings and Reminiscences of a Modern Renaissance Man, page 344:

     I recall one specific trip when we climbed to Madison Hut which is located in the col between Mount Madison and Mount Jefferson.

   • 2019, Alan Staniforth, Cleveland Way, page 74:

     Turn left through a gate in the right angle of the wall and drop down to a col before climbing up the hill.

2. (meteorology) A pressure region between two anticyclones and two low-pressure regions.

   Synonym: saddle point

• North Col

• hausse-col

• col on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• col (meteorology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• mountain pass on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Abbreviation

col (plural cols)

1. Clipping of column.
2. Abbreviation of color.

• 'loc, CLO, Clo, LOC, LoC, OCL, OLC, loc, loc.

From a contraction of the preposition con (“with”) + masculine singular article el (“the”).

col m (feminine cola, neuter colo, masculine plural colos, feminine plural coles)

1. with the

Inherited from Latin caulem (“stalk, stem”), from Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós, “stem of a plant”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈkɔl]

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col f (plural cols)

1. cabbage

• coliflor

• “col” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “col”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “col” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “col” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

col (Northern dialect)

1. road, way

• Literary form: yol

• coll

From Vulgar Latin *cu illu, contracted from the accusative of Vulgar Latin *eccum ille. Compare Italian quello, Romanian acel, Old French cil, Spanish aquel.

col

1. that

• IPA^(key): /kɔl/
• Hyphenation: col
• Rhymes: -ɔl

Borrowed from French col (“collar”), from Latin collum (“neck”).

col m (plural cols, diminutive colletje n)

1. (informal, chiefly Belgium) (clothing) collar

   Synonym: kraag

• coltrui

col m (plural collen, diminutive colletje n)

1. (informal, Belgium) (sports) mountain pass

   Synonym: bergpas

Borrowed from French colle.

col f (uncountable)

1. (informal, Belgium) glue

• lijm

• collage

Inherited from Old French col, from Latin collum (“neck”). Doublet of cou.

• IPA^(key): /kɔl/

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• Homophones: colle, collent, colles, cols

col m (plural cols)

1. (clothing) collar
2. (geography) col (dip on a mountain ridge)
3. (anatomy, dated) neck

   Synonym: cou

4. neck (of objects, vases etc.)

   le col d’une bouteille ― the neck of a bottle

• col Danton
• col de l’utérus
• col Mao
• col romain
• col roulé

• cou
• collier

• → Hausa: kwal

• “col”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• coia, couva

From Old Galician-Portuguese col (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from an older unattested *coule, from Latin caulis. Cognate with Portuguese couve and Spanish col.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔl/

col f (plural coles)

1. collard; wild mustard, wild cabbage; kale; Brassica oleracea var. acephala

   Synonyms: coella, verza

• coella
• coíña
• coíñeiro

• coliflor

• “col” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “coles” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “couues” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “col” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “col” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “col” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Borrowed from German Zoll.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sol]
• Hyphenation: col
• Rhymes: -ol

col (plural colok)

1. inch

   Synonym: hüvelyk

• col in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• col in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

• IPA^(key): [kɔl̪ˠ]

From Old Irish col, from Proto-Celtic *kulom.

col m (genitive singular coil, nominative plural colanna)

1. prohibition
2. sin, lust
3. violation
4. dislike
5. incest

   Synonyms: ciorrú coil, corbadh

6. relation, relationship

From French col (“neck”).

col m (genitive singular coil, nominative plural coil)

1. (geography) col

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “col”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Entries containing “col” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “col” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

col

1. contraction of con il; with the

• coul, coyl
• cal, kal (Northern)

From Old English cāl, variant of cawel, borrowed from Latin caulis.

• IPA^(key): /kɔːl/
• (Northern) IPA^(key): /kaːl/

col (plural coles)

1. cabbage, kale, colewort

• English: cole, kale, kail
• Scots: cale, caill, kail
• Yola: kaayle
• → Irish: cál

• “cōl, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From Old French col, from Latin collum.

col m (plural cols)

1. (anatomy) the neck

• French: cou, col

From Proto-West Germanic *kōl(ī). Cognate with Old High German kuoli.

• IPA^(key): /koːl/

cōl (comparative cōlra, superlative cōlost)

1. cool (not hot or warm)

• Middle English: col, coul, cool
  • Scots: cule, cuill, kuil
  • English: cool (see there for further descendants)

From Proto-West Germanic *kol. Cognate with Old Frisian kole, Old High German kolo, Old Norse kol.

• IPA^(key): /kol/

col n

1. coal
2. charcoal

• colpytt
• colsweart

• Middle English: cole
  • English: coal

Inherited from Latin collum. Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese colo and Old Spanish cuello.

• IPA^(key): /kɔl/
• Rhymes: -ɔl

col oblique singular, m (oblique plural cous or cox or cols, nominative singular cous or cox or cols, nominative plural col)

1. (anatomy) neck

• coler

• Middle French: col
  • French: cou, col
• Norman: co
• Walloon: cô

From Proto-Celtic *kulɸom.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkol]

col n (genitive cuil)

1. sin, violation

• mórchol

• Irish: col
• Scottish Gaelic: col (“incest”)

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “col”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Old Irish col (“sin”).

col m (genitive singular cola, plural colan)

1. incest

Borrowed from German Zoll.

• IPA^(key): /t͡sôːl/

cȏl m (Cyrillic spelling цо̑л)

1. inch

• ȉnč, pȁlac

Inherited from Latin caulem (“stalk, stem”), from Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós, “stem of a plant”). Cognate with English cole and chou.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkol/ [ˈkol]
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• Rhymes: -ol
• Syllabification: col

col f (plural coles)

1. cabbage

   Synonyms: berza, repollo

• → Taos: kùliʼína

• “col”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

col

1. wild

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cōl m (plural cōln)

1. inch (unit of measure)