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Italian
Etymology
From Late Latin collīna, from the feminine of Latin collīnus, from collis (“hill”) + -ina, from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥Hnís (“top, hill, rock”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kolˈli.na/
- Rhymes: -ina
- Hyphenation: col‧lì‧na
Noun
collina f (plural colline)
- hill
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Latin
Etymology
Substantivisation of collīna, feminine of collīnus (“of a hill”), from collis + -īnus
Adjective
collīna
- inflection of collīnus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Adjective
collīnā
- ablative feminine singular of collīnus
Noun
collīna f (genitive collīnae); first declension
- (Late Latin) hill
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “collina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- collina 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)
- collina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “collīna”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 904