collis

See also: Collis, col·lis, and collís

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Verb

collis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of collar

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kolnis, from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥Hnís (“hill”), from the root *kelH- (“to rise; hill”). 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
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 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).

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

Borrowings

• → Andalusian Arabic: قُلّ
  • → Spanish: alcor

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, volume 2: C Q K, page 904