Updated June 9, 2019

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  • Spanish and Portuguese : from Italian colonnello, a diminutive of colonna ‘column (of troops)’ (Latin columna), hence a metonymic occupational name for someone in command of a regiment. According to Tiboń, the change of -l- to -r- may be under the influence of the word corona ‘crown’ as a symbol of power.