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Where does “coronnel” come from?

coronnel (Middle French) comes from Italian colonnello, from Italian -ello, from Latin -ellus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

coronnel (Middle French): colonel; a middle-ranking military officer

Definitions

  1. colonel; a middle-ranking military officer

Ancestry of “coronnel”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiancolonnellocolonel
2Italian-elloAlterative suffix used to form...
3Latin-ellusAlternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine...
4Latin-ulusUsed to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating...
5Proto-Italic-olos—
6Proto-Italic-elos—
7Proto-Indo-European-e-lós—
8Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots

Words derived from “coronnel”

  • colonel
  • coronal
  • colonelcy
  • coronally
  • bicoronal
  • intracoronal
  • colonelship
  • midcoronal
  • precoronal
  • geocoronal
  • apicocoronal
  • apicocoronally
  • distocoronal
  • coronel
  • Colonel
  • कर्नल
  • kolonel
  • kolonelleitnant
  • aachernyl
  • curnal
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