coronel

Meaning

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

Concepts

colonel

air force

captain

group captain

headmost

Translations

coronel

colonnello

colonel

Oberst

coronel

kolonel

συνταγματάρχης

albay

σμήναρχος

colonello

coronèl

Obrist

زَعِيم

كولونيل

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ko.ɾoˈnɛw/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French: coronel

In summary

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”).