colle
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Vulgar Latin colla, from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”). Compare Italian colla, Portuguese and Spanish cola.
Noun edit
colle f (plural colles)
- glue
- (France, education) oral examination at a prépa or during the PASS
- Synonym: khôlle
- 2010, Alexandre Devaux, Tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur la prépa scientifique, Dunod, →ISBN, page 79:
- La khôlle (ou colle) est une interrogation orale d’une heure devant un tableau. On vous donne un exercice et vous avez pour mission de le résoudre (même si ce n’est pas le plus important).
- The khôlle (or colle) is an hour-long oral examination in front of a blackboard. You are given an exercise and your mission is to solve it (although solving it is not the most important thing).
- (by extension, figurative) conundrum, stumper (difficult question)
- poser une colle ― to ask a toughie
- (school slang) detention
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
colle
- inflection of coller:
Further reading edit
- “colle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician edit
Verb edit
colle
- inflection of coller:
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin collem (“hill”). Cognate with English hill.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
colle m (plural colli)
- (geomorphology) hill
- pass (through hills)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- colle1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- colle2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
colle f
Etymology 3 edit
Pronunciation edit
Contraction edit
colle
Usage notes edit
- While in use in the spoken language, its use is somewhat old-fashioned in the written language.
References edit
- ^ colle in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Further reading edit
- colle in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Noun edit
colle
Old French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ).
Noun edit
colle oblique singular, f (oblique plural colles, nominative singular colle, nominative plural colles)
- bile (bodily fluid)