cole
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kəʊl/, /kɔʊl/
- (US) IPA(key): /koʊl/
- Homophones: coal, kohl
- Rhymes: -əʊl
Etymology 1 edit
Wikispecies From Middle English cole, col, from Old English cawel, from Germanic, from Latin caulis (“cabbage”). Cognate with Dutch kool, German Kohl. Doublet of caulis, gobi, and kale.
Noun edit
cole (usually uncountable, plural coles)
- Cabbage.
- Brassica; a plant of the Brassica genus, especially those of Brassica oleracea (rape and coleseed).
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cabbage — see cabbage
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Etymology 2 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun edit
cole (plural coles)
- (Scotland) A stack or stook of hay.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 39:
- Father saw the happening from high in a park where the hay was cut and they set the swathes in coles, and he swore out Damn't to hell! and started to run […]
See also edit
- cole-prophet (etymologically unrelated)
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cole
Antonyms edit
- (antonym(s) of "winter"): waum
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Lower Sorbian edit
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cole
- inflection of coło:
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cole
- Alternative form of coule
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Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
cole m (plural coles)
- Alternative form of cúli
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
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cole
- inflection of colar:
Scots edit
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Etymology edit
Uncertain; possibly from Old French coillir (Modern French cueillir) or Old Norse kollr.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈkol/, /ˈkɔl/, /ˈkel/
- (Central Scots)
- (North East Central Scots)
- (West Central Scots)
- (Argyll) IPA(key): /ˈkɔil/
- (North Ayrshire) IPA(key): /ˈkwəil/
- (Renfrewshire) IPA(key): /ˈkwəil/
- (South West Central Scots)
- (South Ayrshire) IPA(key): /ˈkwəil/
- (Kirkcudbright) IPA(key): /ˈkɔil/
- (Southern Scots) IPA(key): /ˈkəil/
Noun edit
cole (plural coles)
- (archaic, agriculture) A haycock, hayrick, bundle of straw.
Verb edit
cole (third-person singular simple present coles, present participle colein, simple past colet, past participle colet)
- (archaic, agriculture) To put hay in a cole.
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cole m (plural coles)
- (colloquial) school
- 2020 April 26, “Los niños salen por fin de casa: “No me acuerdo de pedalear””, in El País[1]:
- Pero como lo que más echo de menos es el cole, pues he ido con mi padre a ver la puerta del colegio, aunque estaba cerrada y ha sido un poco triste porque tengo muchísimas ganas de ver a mis amigas", cuenta Claudia, de ocho años.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
cole
- inflection of colar (“to canonically confer (an ecclesiastical benefit)”):
Further reading edit
- “cole”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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Adjective edit
cole
- Alternative form of coale
References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 31