colonel
French
noun
Definitions
- colonel
- An ice cream dessert consisting of lemon sherbet and vodka.
Etymology
Derived from Italian colonnello (the officer of a small company of soldiers that marched at the head of a regiment).
Origin
Italian (Fiorentino)
colonnello
Gloss
the officer of a small company of soldiers that marched at the head of a regiment
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- colonel English
- colonelcy English
- colonelship English
- columna Latin
- Colonel German
- colonna Italian
- colonnello Italian
- kolonel Dutch, Flemish
- coronel Portuguese
- coronel Catalan, Valencian
- कर्नल Hindi
- colonel Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- curnal Manx
- colonel Middle French
- coronel Middle French
- coronnel Middle French
- kolonel Estonian
- kolonelleitnant Estonian
- kanali Swahili
- coronel Old Occitan
- kanar Hausa