collis

See also: Collis, col·lis, and collís

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈko̞.ʎis]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈkɔ.ʎis]

Verb

collis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of collar

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔl.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔl.lis]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *kolnis, from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥Hnís (“hill”), from the root *kelH- (“to rise; hill”). Cognate with Proto-West Germanic *hulli (English hill).

Noun

collis m (genitive collis); third declension

1. a hill

   Tumor ille locī permānsit, et altī collis habet speciem.

   That elevation of the place remained and it has the appearance of a high hill.

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 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

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

	singular	plural
nominative	collis	collēs
genitive	collis	collium
dative	collī	collibus
accusative	collem	collēs collīs
ablative	colle collī	collibus
vocative	collis	collēs

Derived terms

• collīnus
• colliculus

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: colle
  • Gallurese: coddu
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: col
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: coll
  • Old Occitan: col, cola
    • Occitan: còla
• Ibero-Romance:
  • ⇒ Galician: colado
  • ⇒ Spanish: collado, collada

Borrowings

• → Andalusian Arabic: قُلّ
  • → Spanish: alcor

Etymology 2

Noun

collīs

1. dative/ablative plural of collum

References

• “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