See also: Colla and collà

English

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Noun

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colla

  1. plural of collum

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Catalan

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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colla f (plural colles)

  1. group, gang, band
    Synonyms: grup, banda, ardat
  2. a team of practitioners of certain traditional activities, such as castells building or sardana dancing

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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colla

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

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French

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  • Audio:(file)

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colla

  1. third-person singular past historic of coller

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Galician

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Verb

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colla

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

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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colla

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

Mutation

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Mutated forms of colla
radical lenition eclipsis
colla cholla gcolla

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

References

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

Italian

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Etymology 1

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

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Contraction

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colla

  1. (dated) Contraction of con la; with the

Etymology 2

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

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Noun

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colla f (plural colle)

  1. glue or similar sticky material
  2. size (substance)
  3. (nautical) a rope used for lowering the sails
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Descendants
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  • Ottoman Turkish: قولا (kola), قوله (kula; kola)
    • Turkish: kula

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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Verb

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colla

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

References

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  1. ^ colla in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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Latin

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Noun

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colla

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of collum

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Latvian

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Noun

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colla f (4th declension)

  1. inch

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Spanish

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  • IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈkoʝa/ [ˈko.ʝa]
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ˈkoʎa/ [ˈko.ʎa]
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈkoʃa/ [ˈko.ʃa]
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈkoʒa/ [ˈko.ʒa]

 

  • Syllabification: co‧lla

Etymology 1

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Probably borrowed from Catalan colla.[1]

Noun

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colla f (plural collas)

  1. A team of dockworkers or stevedores

Etymology 2

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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.[2]

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colla f (plural collas)

  1. (historical) gorget (piece of armour for the throat)
    Synonyms: gorjal, gorguera

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  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ 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

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