collum
See also: Collum
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin collum (“the neck”). Doublet of col.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒl.əm/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑl.əm/
- Homophone: column
- Rhymes: -ɒləm
Noun edit
collum (plural colla)
- (anatomy) A neck, cervix, or neckline part or process.
- 1882, Frank Coles Phillips, Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists' Society, volume 3, page 25:
- No sooner does a little particle of food touch the edge of the delicate collar which surrounds the collum, than it adheres to it and is carried down by currents, that circulate up one side of the collar and down the other, to the end of the collum, in which, along with an accompanying drop of water, it becomes at once engulped[sic].
- (botany) A collar[1]
References edit
- ^ Asa Gray (1857) “[Glossary […].] Collum.”, in First Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology, […], New York, N.Y.: Ivison & Phinney and G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam & Co., […], →OCLC.
- “collum”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain, but perhaps from Proto-Italic *kʷolsom, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷolso- (“neck”, literally “that on which the head turns”), from *kʷel- (“to turn”). Typologically compare Old Armenian պարանոց (paranocʻ, “neck”).
See also Old English heals (“neck, prow of a ship”) (whence English halse (“neck, throat”)), Middle Dutch and Old Norse hals (“neck”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkol.lum/, [ˈkɔlːʲʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkol.lum/, [ˈkɔlːum]
Noun edit
collum n (genitive collī); second declension
- (anatomy) (of men and animals) The neck or throat.
- Synonym: cervix
- (in particular):
- (metonymically) The neck of a flask or bottle; the neck of the poppy; the middle part of Mount Parnassus.
Declension edit
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 |
Derived terms edit
- succollō (verb)
Descendants edit
References edit
- “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
- the town stands on rising ground: oppidum colli impositum est