# cole
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kəʊl/, /kɔʊl/
** (doll–dole merger) IPA: /kɒl/
* (US) IPA: /koʊl/
* Homophones: coal, kohl
* Rhymes: -əʊl

### Etymology 1

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.

#### 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
* sea cole

##### Related terms

* colewort
* cauliflower

##### Translations
### 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 (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 […]

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

cole (countable and uncountable, plural coles)
* Obsolete form of coal.

### See also

* cole-prophet (etymologically unrelated)

### Anagrams

* LCOE, -coel, ecol., coel-, Cloe, Coel, Cleo

## 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

* (antonym(s) of “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: /ˈt͡sɔlɛ/, [ˈt͡sɔlə]

### Noun

cole
* inflection of coło:
** locative singular
** nominative/accusative dual

## Middle English
### Noun

cole
* Alternative form of coule

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

cole m (plural coles)
* Alternative form of cúli

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkɔ.li/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkɔ.li/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈkɔ.le/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈkɔ.lɨ/

#### 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: /ˈkol/, /ˈkɔl/, /ˈkel/
* (Central Scots)
** (North East Central Scots)
*** (Perth) IPA: /ˈkɔil/
*** (Stirling) IPA: /ˈkwəil/
** (West Central Scots)
*** (Argyll) IPA: /ˈkɔil/
*** (North Ayrshire) IPA: /ˈkwəil/
*** (Renfrewshire) IPA: /ˈkwəil/
** (South West Central Scots)
*** (South Ayrshire) IPA: /ˈkwəil/
*** (Kirkcudbright) IPA: /ˈkɔil/
* (Southern Scots) IPA: /ˈkəil/
** (Hawick) IPA: /ˈkuːl/
** (Selkirk) IPA: /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
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkole/ [ˈko.le]
* Rhymes: -ole
* Syllabification: co‧le

### Etymology 1

Clipping of colegio.

#### 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.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

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

### Further reading

* “cole”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Yola
### Adjective

cole
* Alternative form of coale

### References

* 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