collum

English

Etymology

Latin, neck.

Noun

collum (plural colla)

1. (anatomy) A neck or cervix.

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2. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kwol-o- (“neck, literally 'that on which the head turns'”); see also Middle Dutch and Old Norse hals (“neck”), from *kʷékʷlos (“circle, wheel”).

Noun

collum (genitive collī); n, second declension

1. neck, throat
2. upper stem of a plant
3. (symbolically) servitude

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	collum	colla
genitive	collī	collōrum
dative	collō	collīs
accusative	collum	colla
ablative	collō	collīs
vocative	collum	colla

Synonyms

• cervix

Descendants

Catalan: coll Dalmatian: cual English: collar, collet, decollate French: cou Friulian: cuel Italian: collo

Jèrriais: co Neapolitan cuollo Portuguese: colo Sicilian: coddu Spanish: cuello

References

• collum in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879