kolonel

From Dutch kolonel.

kolonel (plural kolonels)

1. colonel

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”).

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• Hyphenation: ko‧lo‧nel

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.

• dubbel kolonel

Borrowed from French colonel or English colonel.

kolonel (genitive koloneli, partitive koloneli)

1. colonel

• kolonelleitnant