collis

See also: Collis and collís

Catalan

Verb

collis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive form of collar

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkol.lis/, [ˈkɔlːʲɪs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkol.lis/, [ˈkɔlːis]

Noun

collis m (genitive collis); third declension

1. a hill

Declension

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

Case	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: coḍḍu
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: col
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: coll
  • Old Occitan: col, cola
    • Occitan: còla
• Ibero-Romance:
  • ⇒ Galician: colado
  • ⇒ Spanish: collado, collada

References

• “collis”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; 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
    
• von Wartburg, Walther (1928–2002), “cŏllis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 20, page 904