# collum
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin collum (“the neck”). Doublet of col.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɒl.əm/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈkɑl.əm/
* Homophone: column
* Rhymes: -ɒləm

### Noun

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.
* (botany) A collar

### References

* ↑ 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

* Cullom

## Latin

Picture dictionary :
collum
calvāria
cerebrum
oculus
labium
nāsus
ōs
mentum
māxilla
auris
tempus
collum :

### Alternative forms

* collus (pre-Classical)

### Etymology

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”); Russian во́рот (vórot), воротни́к (vorotník) (related to верте́ть (vertétʹ)).
See also Old English heals (“neck, prow of a ship”) (whence English halse (“neck, throat”)), Middle Dutch and Old Norse hals (“neck”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkol.lum/, [ˈkɔlːʲʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkol.lum/, [ˈkɔlːum]

### Noun

collum n (genitive collī); second declension
* (anatomy, of men and animals) The neck or throat.
    Synonym: cervix
* (in particular):
** A symbol of servitude.
** A symbol of life.
* (metonymically) The neck of a flask or bottle; the neck of the poppy; the middle part of Mount Parnassus.

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

#### Derived terms

* succollō (verb)

#### Descendants

* Catalan: coll
* Corsican: collu, coddu
* Franco-Provençal: côl
* Old French: col
** Middle French: col
*** French: cou, col
** Norman: co
** Walloon: cô
* Friulian: cuel
* Italian: collo
* Neapolitan: cuollo
* Occitan: còl, còu
* Sardinian: coddu, codhu
* Sicilian: coddu
* Venetan: coło, col
* Ibero-Romance:
** Asturian: cuellu
** Old Galician-Portuguese: colo
*** Fala: colu
*** Galician: colo
*** Portuguese: colo
** Old Spanish: cuello
*** Spanish: cuello (see there for further descendants)

### References

* “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, London: Macmillan and Co. the town stands on rising ground: oppidum colli impositum est
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “collus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 125