kolino
Ido edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French colline, Spanish colina and Italian collina.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kolino (plural kolini)
Serbo-Croatian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kolěno.
Noun edit
kolino n (Cyrillic spelling колино) (Ikavian)
- knee
- C14, N.N. Muka svete Margarite (transcribed from Glagolitic original):
- To rekši, kleknu na kolina, priporuči duh svoj gospodinu Bogu, a ubojica, poj mač svoj, udri po vratu svete Margarite, odsiče joj glavu.
- 1730s, Andrija Kačić Miošić, Razgovor ugodni naroda slovinskoga, Pisma od bana Zrinovića i cara Sulemana trećega:
- A kad bana rane dopadoše,
kleknu vitez na kolino livo.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- C14, N.N. Muka svete Margarite (transcribed from Glagolitic original):