cole
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kəʊl/, /kɔʊl/
- (US) IPA(key): /koʊl/
- Homophones: coal, kohl
- Rhymes: -əʊl
Etymology 1
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Wikispecies From Middle English cole, col, from Old English cawel, from Germanic, from Latin caulis (“cabbage”). Cognate with Dutch kool, German Kohl. Doublet of kale.
Noun
cole (usually uncountable, plural coles)
- Cabbage.
- Brassica; a plant of the Brassica genus, especially those of Brassica oleracea (rape and coleseed).
Derived terms
- coleseed
- coleslaw
Related terms
- colewort
- cauliflower
Translations
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Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
cole (plural coles)
- (Scotland) A stack or stook of hay.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), 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 […]
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), page 39:
See also
- cole-prophet (etymologically unrelated)
Anagrams
- -coel, Cleo, Cloe, ecol.
Asturian
Verb
cole
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive of colar
Chinook Jargon
Etymology
Borrowed from English cold.
Adjective
cole
- cold
Antonyms
- waum
Noun
cole
- winter
- year
Antonyms
- (winter): waum
Italian
Verb
cole
- third-person singular present indicative of colere
Anagrams
- celo, celò
Latin
Verb
cole
- second-person singular present active imperative of colō
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡sɔlɛ/, [ˈt͡sɔlə]
Noun
cole
- inflection of coło:
- locative singular
- nominative/accusative dual
Middle English
Noun
cole
- Alternative form of coule
Portuguese
Noun
cole m (plural coles)
- Alternative form of cúli
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.li/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.le/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈkɔ.lɨ/, /ˈkɔl/ [ˈkɔɫ]
Verb
cole
- inflection of colar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Scots
Alternative forms
- col, coll, coal, coil, kyle, koll, koil, koal, kole, kale, cuile, quile, queyle
Etymology
Uncertain; possibly from Old French coillir (Modern French cueillir) or Old Norse kollr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkol/, /ˈkɔl/, /ˈkel/
- (Central Scots)
- (North East Central Scots)
- (Perth) IPA(key): /ˈkɔil/
- (Stirling) IPA(key): /ˈkwəil/
- (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/
- (North East Central Scots)
- (Southern Scots) IPA(key): /ˈkəil/
- (Hawick) IPA(key): /ˈkuːl/
- (Selkirk) IPA(key): /ˈkɔil/
Noun
cole (plural coles)
- (archaic, agriculture) A haycock, hayrick, bundle of straw.
Verb
cole (third-person singular simple present coles, present participle colein, simple past colet, past participle colet)
- (archaic, agriculture) To put hay in a cole.
Derived terms
- coltar
Spanish
Etymology
Clipping of colegio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkole/ [ˈko.le]
- Rhymes: -ole
- Syllabification: co‧le
Noun
cole m (plural coles)
- (colloquial) school
- 2020 April 26, “Los niños salen por fin de casa: “No me acuerdo de pedalear””, in El País:
- 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.
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Verb
cole
- inflection of colar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “cole”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Yola
Adjective
cole
- Alternative form of coale
References
- Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 31