Noun: collis
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension: Third
Nominative
| Singular | collis |
| Plural | collēs |
Genitive
| Singular | collis |
| Plural | collium |
Dative
| Singular | collī |
| Plural | collibus |
Accusative
| Singular | collem |
| Plural | collēs; collīs |
Ablative
| Singular | colle; collī |
| Plural | collibus |
Vocative
| Singular | collis |
| Plural | collēs |
Sample Sentences
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Tumor ille locī permānsit, et altī collis habet speciem. (That elevation of the place remained and it has the appearance of a high hill.)
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Iamque ascendēbant collem, quī plūrimus urbī (And now they were climbing the hill, which menaces high above the city, and looks down upon the opposite defenses.) [29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 1.419–420]
Nouns inflected like collis
subclassis,
birēmis,
novālis,
superclassis,
quadrirēmis,
quīnquerēmis,
classis,
vōcālis,
amnis,
auris,
fīnis,
orbis,
cīvis,
rudis,
nātālis,
sēmivōcālis,
trirēmis,
maiālis,
majālis,
mataris, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *kolnis, from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥Hnís (“hill”), from the root *kelH- (“to rise; hill”). Cognate with Proto-West Germanic *hulli (English hill). See: English Nouns '
hill'.
Verbs referencing "collis"
English Nouns
hill, English Nouns
column, Italian Nouns
colle, Galician Nouns
colado, Latvian Nouns
kalns, Spanish Nouns
collado, Ancient Greek Nouns
κολώνη, Spanish Nouns
alcor.
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