collateral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlætəɹəl/
rhymes: -ætəɹəl
Etymology: Recorded since c.1378, from Old French, from Medieval Latin collaterālis, from Latin col- (“together with”) (a form of con-) + the stem of latus (“side”). By surface analysis, col- + lateral.
Senses: examples: text: Her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and medial collateral ligament (MCL) are torn and Vonn has a lateral fracture of the tibial plateau, the upper end of the tibia or shin bone.
ref: 2013 February 6, Jen Christiensen, “Vonn’s injury ‘career-delayer,’ not ‘career ender’”, in CNN:
glosses: Parallel, in the same vein, side by side.
examples: text: Yet the attempt may give / Collateral interest to this homely tale.
ref: 1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion:
glosses: Corresponding; accompanying, concomitant.
examples: text: collateral damage
text: Although not a direct cause, the border skirmish was certainly a collateral incitement for the war.
text: That he [Atterbury] was altogether in the wrong on the main question, and on all the collateral questions springing out of it, […] is true.
ref: 1878, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Francis Atterbury”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition:
synonyms: tangential
subordinate
ancillary
glosses: Being aside from the main subject, target, or goal.
examples: text: a collateral descendant
text: Uncles, aunts, cousins, nephews and nieces are collateral relatives.
text: The pure blood all descends from five collateral lines called Al-Khamsah (the Cinque).
ref: 1885, Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume 5:
qualifier: genealogy
glosses: Of an indirect ancestral relationship, as opposed to lineal descendency.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Relating to a collateral in the sense of an obligation or security.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Expensive to the extent of being paid through a loan.
examples: text: collateral pressure
text: collateral light
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: Coming or directed along the side.
examples: text: If by direct or by collateral hand
 They find us touched, we will our kingdom give […]
 To you in satisfaction.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
glosses: Acting in an indirect way.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the phloem and xylem adjacent.
raw_tags: of a vascular bundle
Derived terms: bicollateral
collateral artery
collateral circulation
collateral damage
collateral energy
collateral estoppel
collateral form
collaterality
collateralization
collaterally
collateral material
collateralness
collateral review
collateral science
collateral security
collateral vein
collateral vessel
medial collateral ligament
pericollateral
recollateralization
transcollateral
Related terms: lateral