collum

See also: Collum

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) Borrowed from Latin collum.

Noun

collum (plural colla)

1. (anatomy) A neck or cervix.

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2. (botany) A collar.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “collum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Cullom

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Latin

Alternative forms

• collus

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) From Proto-Indo-European *kʷolso- (“neck”, literally “that on which the head turns”), from *kʷel- (“to turn”). See also Old English heals (“neck, prow of a ship”) (whence English halse (“neck, throat”)), Middle Dutch and Old Norse hals (“neck”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkol.lum/, [ˈkɔlːʲʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkol.lum/, [ˈkɔlːum]

Noun

collum n (genitive collī); second declension

1. (anatomy) neck, throat
2. upper stem of a plant
3. (symbolically) servitude

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	collum	colla
Genitive	collī	collōrum
Dative	collō	collīs
Accusative	collum	colla
Ablative	collō	collīs
Vocative	collum	colla

Synonyms

• cervix

Descendants

• Asturian: cuellu
• Catalan: coll
• English: collar, collet, decollate
• French: cou
• Friulian: cuel
• Galician: colo
• Italian: collo
• Norman: co

• Neapolitan: cuollo
• Occitan: còl, còu
• Portuguese: colo
• Sardinian: coddu, codhu
• Sicilian: coddu
• Spanish: cuello
• Venetian: coło, col
• Walloon: cô

References

• “collum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “collum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• collum 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)
• collum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the town stands on rising ground: oppidum colli impositum est