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(Inglese)

(masculine) colonel (commissioned office in the armed services)
(Brazil, masculine) a politician in rural areas

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/ko.ɾoˈnɛw/

Preso in prestito da francese medio

coronel

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Borrowed 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 compagnia colonnella (“little column company”), from Latin columna (“pillar”), from columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”), o-grade form from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“going around”).