English

Noun

collum ‎(plural colla)

1. (anatomy) A neck or cervix.

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2. (botany) A collar.

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kwol-o- ‎(“neck, literally 'that on which the head turns'”); see also Middle Dutch and Old Norse hals ‎(“neck”), from *kʷékʷlos ‎(“circle, wheel”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkol.lum/, [ˈkɔl.lũ]

Noun

collum n ‎(genitive collī); second declension

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

Inflection

Second declension.

Synonyms

• cervix

Descendants

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “collum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the town stands on rising ground: oppidum colli impositum est