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cole

See also: Cole, colé, and có lẽ

English

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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 caulis, gobi, and kale.

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cole (usually uncountable, plural coles)

  1. Cabbage.
  2. Brassica; a plant of the Brassica genus, especially those of Brassica oleracea (rape and coleseed).
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Etymology 2

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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cole (plural coles)

  2. (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 […]

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Noun

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cole (countable and uncountable, plural coles)

  1. Obsolete form of coal.

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Asturian

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Verb

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cole

  1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of colar

Chinook Jargon

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English cold.

Adjective

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cole

  1. cold

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Noun

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cole

  1. winter
  2. year

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  • (antonym(s) of “winter”): waum

Italian

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cole

  1. third-person singular present indicative of colere

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Latin

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cole

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of colō

Lower Sorbian

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  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sɔlɛ/, [ˈt͡sɔlə]

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cole

  1. inflection of coło:
    1. locative singular
    2. nominative/accusative dual

Middle English

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cole

  1. Alternative form of coule

Portuguese

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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cole m (plural coles)

  1. Alternative form of cúli

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cole

  1. inflection of colar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Scots

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Etymology

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Uncertain; possibly from Old French coillir (Modern French cueillir) or Old Norse kollr.

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cole (plural coles)

  1. (archaic, agriculture) A haycock, hayrick, bundle of straw.

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cole (third-person singular simple present coles, present participle colein, simple past colet, past participle colet)

  1. (archaic, agriculture) To put hay in a cole.

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Spanish

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkole/ [ˈko.le]
  • Rhymes: -ole
  • Syllabification: co‧le

Etymology 1

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Clipping of colegio.

Noun

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cole m (plural coles)

  1. (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

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Verb

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cole

  1. inflection of colar (“to canonically confer (an ecclesiastical benefit)”):
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

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Adjective

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cole

  1. Alternative form of coale

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  • 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
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