col

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Symbol

col

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Columbia-Wenatchi terms

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

col

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

Derived terms

• North Col

Translations

dip between mountain peaks

Bulgarian: проход (bg) (prohod), седловина (sedlovina) Catalan: coll (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 山坳 (zh) (shān'ào) Czech: sedlo (cs) n, průsmyk (cs) m French: col (fr) m Galician: portela f, golada f Georgian: უნაგირა (unagira) German: Joch (de) n Hungarian: nyereg (hu) Irish: col m Italian: forcella (it) f, colle (it) m Japanese: たわ (ja) (tawa), コル (ja) (koru) Russian: седловина (ru) (sedlovina), перева́л (ru) (perevál) Spanish: collado (es) m

See also

• hausse-col

Further reading

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

Etymology 2

Abbreviation

Noun

col (plural cols)

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

Anagrams

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

Asturian

Etymology

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

Contraction

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

1. with the

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Valencia):

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

col f (plural cols)

1. cabbage

Derived terms

• a qui no vol cols, dos plats
• cada dia cols, amarguen
• col de Brussel·les
• col de Milà
• col llombarda
• col verda
• col xinesa
• colrave

Related terms

• coliflor

Etymology 2

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

Noun

col m (plural cols)

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

   Synonym: card formatger

Derived terms

• colet
• herbacol

Related terms

• coler

Further reading

• “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, 2025
• “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.

Crimean Tatar

Noun

col (Northern dialect)

1. road, way

Usage notes

• Literary form: yol

Declension

Declension of col

nominative	col
genitive	colnıñ
dative	colğa
accusative	colnı
locative	colda
ablative	coldan

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• coll

Etymology

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

Pronoun

col

1. that

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔl/

• Audio:

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

col m (plural cols, diminutive colletje n)

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

   Synonym: kraag

2. turtleneck (high, close-fitting collar)

Derived terms

• coljurk
• coltrui

Noun

col m (plural collen, diminutive colletje n)

1. (informal, Belgium, sports) mountain pass

   Synonym: bergpas

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French colle.

Noun

col f (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. (informal, Belgium) glue

   Synonym: lijm

Related terms

• collage

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔl/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: colle, collent, colles, cols

Noun

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

Derived terms

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

Related terms

• cou
• collier

Descendants

• → Hausa: kwal

Further reading

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