collis

See also: Collis and collís

Catalan

Verb

collis

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkol.lis/, [ˈkɔlːʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate 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

• Dutch: col
• Galician: colado
• Italian: colle
• Portuguese: cole
• Sardinian: codhu
• Spanish: collado
• French: colline

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