collis
CatalanEdit
VerbEdit
collis
- second-person singular present subjunctive form of collar
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Indo-European *kl̥Hnís (“hill”), from the root *kelH-. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *hulliz (English hill).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
collis m (genitive collis); third declension
- a hill
DeclensionEdit
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 termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Dutch: col
- Galician: colado
- Italian: colle
- Portuguese: cole
- Sardinian: codhu
- Spanish: collado
- French: colline
ReferencesEdit
- 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
- a gentle ascent: collis leniter ab infimo acclivis (opp. leniter a summo declivis)