coronel – Portuguese noun declension

Noun: coronel
Gender: m Hyphenation:

Singular m	coronel
Singular f	coronela
Plural m	coronéis
Plural f	coronelas

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like coronel

coronel, bacharel,

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French coronel, from Italian colonnello (“the officer of a small company of soldiers (column) that marched at the head of a regiment”), from compagnia colonnella (“little column company”), from Latin columna (“pillar”), from columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”), o-grade form from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“going around”). See: Italian Nouns 'colonnello', Latin Nouns 'columna'.

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