Meaning & use
Coronel
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An archaic spelling of "colonel," a military officer rank above lieutenant colonel and below brigadier general.
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The old manuscript refers to "Coronel Fitzwilliam" leading the regiment into battle.
Shakespeare's contemporaries would have recognized "coronel" as the standard spelling of the rank we now call colonel.
A note on using this word
The modern spelling "colonel" oddly kept an "r" sound borrowed from the older French/Italian forms while its pronunciation shifted; the spelling and pronunciation mismatch is a famous quirk of English.
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