# colla
## English
### Noun

colla
* plural of collum

### Anagrams

* lo-cal, local

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈkɔ.ʎə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈkɔ.ʎa]

### Etymology 1

Deverbal from collar, of uncertain origin, perhaps from coll (“neck”).

#### Noun

colla f (plural colles)
* group, gang, band
    Synonyms: grup, banda, ardat
* a team of practitioners of certain traditional activities, such as castells building or sardana dancing

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

colla
* inflection of collar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “colla” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “colla” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

colla
* third-person singular past historic of coller

### Anagrams

* local

## Galician
### Verb

colla
* inflection of coller:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Irish
### Alternative forms

* colna (superseded)

### Pronunciation

* (Ulster) IPA: /ˈkʌl̪ˠə/

### Noun

colla
* inflection of colainn:
** genitive singular
** all cases plural

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 79

## Italian
### Etymology 1

Contraction of Italian con (“with”) and la (“the”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌkol.la/, /ˌko.la/
* Rhymes: -olla, -ola
* Hyphenation: cól‧la

#### Contraction

colla
* (dated) Contraction of con la; with the

### Etymology 2

From Vulgar Latin colla, from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”). Compare French colle, Sicilian coḍḍa, Spanish and Portuguese cola.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔl.la/
* Rhymes: -ɔlla
* Hyphenation: còl‧la

#### Noun

colla f (plural colle)
* glue or similar sticky material
* size (substance)
* (nautical) a rope used for lowering the sails

##### Derived terms

* colla di farina (“flour paste”)
* colla di pesce (“isinglass”)
* colloso (“sticky, gluey”)

##### Related terms

* collante (“glue; bond, link”)
* incollare (“to stick, glue; to paste”)

##### Descendants

* → Ottoman Turkish: [script needed] (kola)
** Turkish: kola

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɔl.la/
* Rhymes: -ɔlla
* Hyphenation: còl‧la

#### Verb

colla
* inflection of collare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### References

* ↑ colla in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* alcol, callo, callo-

## Latin
### Noun

colla
* nominative/accusative/vocative plural of collum

### References

* colla 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)

## Latvian
### Noun

colla f (4th declension)
* inch

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkoʝa/ [ˈko.ʝa]
* IPA: (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈkoʝa/ [ˈko.ʝa]
* IPA: (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ˈkoʎa/ [ˈko.ʎa]
* IPA: (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈkoʃa/ [ˈko.ʃa]
* IPA: (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈkoʒa/ [ˈko.ʒa]
* Audio (Peru):(file)
* Rhymes: -oʝa
* Rhymes: -oʝa
* Rhymes: -oʎa
* Rhymes: -oʃa
* Rhymes: -oʒa
* Syllabification: co‧lla

### Etymology 1

Probably borrowed from Catalan colla.

#### Noun

colla f (plural collas)
* A team of dockworkers or stevedores

### Etymology 2

Ultimately from Latin collum, however the o in place of the expected diphthong ue (compare inherited doublet cuello) implies borrowing from another Romance language; however, no other Romance language is known to have such a word with a similar sense.

#### Noun

colla f (plural collas)
* (historical) gorget (piece of armour for the throat)
    Synonyms: gorjal, gorguera

### References

* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “colla”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, pages 147-148
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “colla”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 270

### Further reading

* “colla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10