collum

See also: Collum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin collum.

Noun

collum (plural colla)

(anatomy) A neck or cervix.
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(botany) A collar.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for collum in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Cullom

Latin

Alternative forms

collus

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kʷolso- (“neck”, literally “that on which the head turns”), from *kʷel- (“to turn”). See also Old English heals (“neck, prow of a ship”) (whence English halse (“neck, throat”)), Middle Dutch and Old Norse hals (“neck”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkol.lum/, [ˈkɔl.lũ]

Noun

collum n (genitive collī); second declension

(anatomy) neck, throat
upper stem of a plant
(symbolically) servitude

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	collum	colla
Genitive	collī	collōrum
Dative	collō	collīs
Accusative	collum	colla
Ablative	collō	collīs
Vocative	collum	colla

Synonyms

cervix

Descendants

Asturian: cuellu
Catalan: coll
English: collar, collet, decollate
French: cou
Friulian: cuel
Galician: colo
Italian: collo
Norman: co

Neapolitan cuollo
Occitan: còl, còu
Portuguese: colo
Sardinian: coddu, codhu
Sicilian: coddu
Spanish: cuello
Venetian: coło, col
Walloon: cô

References

collum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
collum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
collum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
collum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the town stands on rising ground: oppidum colli impositum est

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