collina

See also: Collina

Italian

Etymology

From Late Latin collīna, from the feminine of Latin collīnus, from collis (“hill”) + -ina, from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥Hnís (“top, hill, rock”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kolˈli.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: col‧lì‧na

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Noun

collina f (plural colline)

1. hill

Derived terms

Derived terms

• collinare
• collinetta
• collinoso
• scollinare

Related terms

• colle

See also

• colina

Anagrams

• calloni, clonali, incolla

Latin

Etymology

Substantivisation of collīna, feminine of collīnus (“of a hill”), from collis +‎ -īnus

Adjective

collīna

1. inflection of collīnus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural

Adjective

collīnā

1. ablative feminine singular of collīnus

Noun

collīna f (genitive collīnae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) hill

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	collīna	collīnae
Genitive	collīnae	collīnārum
Dative	collīnae	collīnīs
Accusative	collīnam	collīnās
Ablative	collīnā	collīnīs
Vocative	collīna	collīnae

Descendants

• Padanian:
  • Friulian: culine
  • Piedmontese: colina
  • Romansch: kuliña
  • Venetian: cołina
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: collina
    • → French: colline
    • → Portuguese: colina
    • → Romanian: colină
    • →? Sicilian: cullina
    • → Spanish: colina

References

• “collina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• collina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• collina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “collīna”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 904