collage

See also: Collage

English

WOTD – 10 August 2010

A collage

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French collage. Doublet of collagen, colloid, and protocol.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɒˈlɑːʒ/, /kəˈlɑːʒ/, /ˈkɒl.ɑːʒ/
• (US) enPR: kə-läzh', kō-läzh'; IPA^(key): /kəˈlɑʒ/, /koʊˈlɑʒ/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: (UK) -ɑːʒ, (US) -ɑʒ

Noun

collage (countable and uncountable, plural collages)

1. A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface.
2. A composite object or collection (abstract or concrete) created by the assemblage of various media; especially for a work of art such as text, film, etc.

   Richard Brautigan's novel So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away is a collage of memories.

3. (uncountable) The technique of producing a work of art of this kind.

Derived terms

terms derived from collage (noun)

• collage film
• collagelike
• collage novel
• collagey
• collagic
• collagist
• collagistic
• decollage
• photocollage

 

Related terms

• décollage

 

Translations

picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface

• Armenian: կոլաժ (hy) (kolaž)
• Bulgarian: кола́ж m (koláž)
• Catalan: collage m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拼貼 / 拼贴 (zh) (pīntiē)

• Czech: koláž (cs) f
• Dutch: collage (nl) f
• Esperanto: kolaĝo
• Finnish: kollaasi (fi)
• French: collage (fr) m
• German: Collage (de) f
• Greek: κολάζ (el) n (koláz)
• Hungarian: kollázs (hu)
• Indonesian: kolase (id)
• Irish: colláis f
• Italian: collage (it) m
• Japanese: コラージュ (ja) (korāju)
• Korean: 콜라주 (kollaju)
• Malay: kolaj
• Maori: toipiripiri
• Marathi: चिकटचित्र (cikaṭcitra)
• Norwegian: kollasj m, collage (no) m
• Persian: کلاژ (fa) (kolâž)
• Polish: kolaż (pl) m
• Portuguese: colagem (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਕੋਲਾਜ (kolāj)
• Romanian: colaj (ro) n
• Russian: колла́ж (ru) m (kolláž)
• Slovak: koláž f
• Slovene: kolaž m
• Swedish: kollage (sv) n
• Turkish: kolaj (tr)

composite object or collection

• Finnish: kollaasi (fi)
• Hungarian: kollázs (hu)
• Maori: toipiripiri
• Portuguese: composição (pt) f
• Russian: колла́ж (ru) m (kolláž)
• Spanish: collage m (kolash)

art: technique of producing such a work of art

• Catalan: collage m
• Finnish: kollaasi (fi)
• Hungarian: kollázs (hu)
• Romanian: colaj (ro) n
• Russian: колла́ж (ru) m (kolláž)
• Spanish: collage m (kolash)

See also

• montage
• papier-mâché
• pastiche
• decoupage
• bricolage

Verb

collage (third-person singular simple present collages, present participle collaging, simple past and past participle collaged)

1. (transitive) To make into a collage.

   collage the picture together.

Derived terms

• collager

 

See also

• collage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:collage on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• alcogel

Basque

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French collage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /kolaʒ/ [ko.laʒ]
• IPA^(key): (Southern) /kolaʃ/ [ko.laʃ]
• Rhymes: -olaʒ
• Rhymes: -olaʃ

Noun

collage inan

1. collage

Declension

Declension of collage (inanimate, ending in orthographical vowel)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	collage	collage-a	collage-ak
ergative	collage-k	collage-ak	collage-ek
dative	collage-ri	collage-ari	collage-ei
genitive	collage-ren	collage-aren	collage-en
comitative	collage-rekin	collage-arekin	collage-ekin
causative	collage-rengatik	collage-arengatik	collage-engatik
benefactive	collage-rentzat	collage-arentzat	collage-entzat
instrumental	collage-z	collage-az	collage-ez
inessive	collage-tan	collage-an	collage-etan
locative	collage-tako	collage-ko	collage-etako
allative	collage-tara	collage-ra	collage-etara
terminative	collage-taraino	collage-raino	collage-etaraino
directive	collage-tarantz	collage-rantz	collage-etarantz
destinative	collage-tarako	collage-rako	collage-etarako
ablative	collage-tatik	collage-tik	collage-etatik
partitive	collage-rik	—	—
prolative	collage-tzat	—	—

Further reading

• “collage”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French collage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɔˈlaː.ʒə/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: col‧la‧ge
• Rhymes: -aːʒə

Noun

collage m (plural collages)

1. collage (image created by placing pictures on a surface)
2. collage (composite created by the assemblage of various works)

Derived terms

• herfstcollage

Related terms

• col

Descendants

• → Indonesian: kolase

French

Etymology

From coller +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.laʒ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aʒ

Noun

collage m (plural collages)

1. collage
2. (photography) montage

Related terms

• décollage

 

Descendants

Descendants

• → Catalan: collage
• → Chinese: 珂拉琪
• → Dutch: collage
• → English: collage
• → German: Collage
• → Irish: colláis
• → Italian: collage
• → Japanese: コラージュ
• → Korean: 콜라주 (kollaju)
• → Portuguese: colagem (semantic loan)
• → Russian: колла́ж (kolláž) (see there for further descendants)
• → Turkish: kolaj

Further reading

• “collage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Noun

collage

1. Alternative form of college

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French collage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈlaʃ/ [koˈlaʃ]
  • Rhymes: -aʃ
• IPA^(key): /koˈlaʒ/ [koˈlaʒ]
  • Rhymes: -aʒ

Noun

collage m (plural collages)

1. collage

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “collage”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10