colla

See also: Colla and collà

English

Noun

colla

plural of collum

Anagrams

lo-cal, local

Catalan

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
IPA^(key): (Valencian)

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:
1. third-person singular present indicative
2. second-person singular imperative

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

colla

third-person singular past historic of coller

Anagrams

local

Galician

Verb

colla

inflection of coller:
1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2. third-person singular imperative

Irish

Alternative forms

colna (superseded)

Pronunciation

(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌl̪ˠə/

Noun

colla

inflection of colainn:
1. genitive singular
2. all cases plural

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
colla	cholla	gcolla
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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

Italian

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Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /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^(key): /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 (“isinglas”)
colloso (“sticky, gluey”)

Related terms

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

Descendants

→ Ottoman Turkish: قولا (kola), قوله (kula; kola)
- Turkish: kula

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkɔl.la/
Rhymes: -ɔlla
Hyphenation: còl‧la

Verb

colla

inflection of collare:
1. third-person singular present indicative
2. 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

Declension of colla (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	colla	collas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	collu	collas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	collas	collu
dative (datīvs)	collai	collām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	collu	collām
locative (lokatīvs)	collā	collās
vocative (vokatīvs)	colla	collas

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈkoʝa/
IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /ˈkoʎa/
IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈkoʃa/
IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈkoʒa/

(most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -oʝa
(rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -oʎa
(Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -oʃa
(elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -oʒa

Syllabification: co‧lla

Adjective

colla m or f (masculine and feminine plural collas)

Colla

Noun

colla m or f by sense (plural collas)

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