collis

See also: Collis and collís

Catalan

Verb

collis

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive form of collar

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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

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, 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
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