coronel
Archaic military title
Coronel is an archaic or dialectal spelling of colonel, the military rank.
English borrowed the word from Italian *colonnello* but was influenced by Spanish *coronel*, creating competing spellings.
The modern spelling settled on colonel while preserving the "kernel" pronunciation that coronel better represented.
The form survives mainly in historical texts and some proper names.
archaic
Correct letter sequence
- obsoleteNo longer in use
- antiquatedOld and outdated
- historicalOf documented times
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
etymology · variant · orthography · phonetic · sixteenth-century · Spanish · Italian · old
spelling
Correct letter sequence
- obsoleteNo longer in use
- antiquatedOld and outdated
- historicalOf documented times
Renaissance · etymology · variant · orthography · phonetic · sixteenth-century · Spanish · Italian · old · linguistic
- coronal sutureSkull joint crossing crown