col

col

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Columbia-Wenatchi.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Columbia-Wenatchi terms

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɒl/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɑl/
• Rhymes: -ɒl
• Homophones: coll; call, caul (cot–caught merger)

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

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

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

col f (plural cols)

1. cabbage

• coliflor

From Latin coagulum. Doublet of quall and coàgul, a borrowing.

col m (plural cols)

1. (Pallars) wild cardoon (used as a coagulating agent in cheesemaking)

   Synonym: card formatger

• colet
• herbacol

• coler

• “col”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “col”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “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/

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• Hyphenation: col
• Rhymes: -ɔl
• Homophone: kol

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

col m (plural cols, diminutive colletje n)

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

   Synonym: kraag

2. turtleneck (high, close-fitting collar)

col m (plural collen, diminutive colletje n)

1. (informal, Belgium, sports) mountain pass

   Synonym: bergpas

Borrowed from French colle.

col f (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. (informal, Belgium) glue

   Synonym: lijm

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

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “col”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “coles”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “couues”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “col”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “col”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “col”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Borrowed from German Zoll.^[1]

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

col (plural colok)

1. inch

   Synonym: hüvelyk

• col in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• col in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), 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
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “col”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “col”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026

col

1. contraction of con il; with the

• coul, coyl
• cal, cale, kal, kale (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 ⇒ Coolpeach
• → Irish: cál

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

From Old English col

col (plural coles)

1. charcoal
2. coal (the mineral)
3. coal (ember)

• English: coal

• “cōl, n.(2).”, 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/
• Rhymes: -oːl

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/
• Rhymes: -ol

col n

1. coal
2. charcoal

Strong a-stem:

• colmāse
• colpytt
• colsweart

• Middle English: col
  • 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”)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, 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 inan (Cyrillic spelling цо̑л)

1. inch

• ȉnč, pȁlac

• IPA^(key): /ˈkol/ [ˈkol]

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• Rhymes: -ol
• Syllabification: col

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

col f (plural coles)

1. cabbage

   Synonyms: berza, repollo

• → Tagalog: koles
• → Taos: kùliʼína

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

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

1. (obsolete) contraction of con and el

• “col”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

col

1. wild

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cōl m (plural cōln)

1. inch (unit of measure)

• IPA^(key): /kɔl/
• Rhymes: -ɔl

col m (plural colion, diminutive colyn)

1. awn
2. chaff

   Synonyms: eisin, hedion

3. hinge

   Synonyms: colyn, colfach, corddyn, crogfach, bach

• colfach (“hinge, pivot”)
• colyn (“prick, sting, pivot”)

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “col”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “col”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies