collis

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See also: Collis and collís

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collis

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of collar

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Italic *kolnis, from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥Hnís (hill), from the root *kelH-. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *hulliz (English hill).

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collis m (genitive collis); third declension

  1. a hill
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.419-420:
      Iamque ascendēbant collem, quī plūrimus urbī
      imminet, adversāsque aspectat dēsuper arcēs.
      And now they were climbing the hill, which menaces high above the city, and looks down upon the opposite defenses.

Declension[edit]

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or ).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative collis collēs
Genitive collis collium
Dative collī collibus
Accusative collem collēs
collīs
Ablative colle
collī
collibus
Vocative collis collēs

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Descendants[edit]

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: colle
    • Gallurese: coḍḍu
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Old French: col
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:

Borrowings

References[edit]

  • collis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • collis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • collis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • a gentle ascent: collis leniter ab infimo acclivis (opp. leniter a summo declivis)
    • a hill lies to the north: est a septentrionibus collis
  • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “cŏllis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 904