cornel

From Middle English corneille, borrowed from Middle French corneille, from Vulgar Latin *cornicula, from Latin cornus (“the European cornel”).

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• Hyphenation: cor‧nel

cornel (plural cornels)

1. Any tree or shrub of the dogwood subgenera, Cornus subg. Arctocrania (syn. Cornus subg. Chamaepericlymenum) or Cornus subg. Cornus, especially Cornus mas, the European cornel.
2. The cherry-like fruit of such plants, certain of which are edible.
   • 1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 292, lines 855–856:

     Cornels, and ſalvage Berries of the Wood, / And Roots and Herbs have been my meagre Food.

   • 1726, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, The Odyssey:

     Meanwhile the goddess in disdain bestows / The mast and acorn, brutal food! and strows / The fruits and cornel, as their feast, around

• (cherry-like fruit): cornelian cherry, cornel cherry

• dogwood

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• Lorenc, cloner, cronel

cornel

1. alternative form of corner

cornel

1. alternative form of kernel

Borrowed from Middle English cornel, from Anglo-Norman cornal, a dissimilated variant of cornere. Alteratively, the dissimilation occured in Welsh as a version of English corner.^[1] Similar dissimilation occurs in dresel (“dresser”), rasel (“razor”) and fesul (“at a time”).

• (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔrnɛl/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔrnal/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔrnɛl/

cornel m or f (plural corneli)

1. corner

   Synonym: congl

This noun is usually feminine but can be masculine in South Wales.

• siop gornel (“corner shop”)