collina

Forms

collīna f (genitive collīnae); first declension^[1]

Etymology

It is the feminine of collīnus (“of hills”) used as a noun,^[1][2] from collis (“hill”).^[3][4][5]

Earliest recorded meaning

It first appears in the Latin land surveyors (Gromatici), in a text of Innocentius describing a farmstead that has above it a stretch of hilly ground, across which a road runs.^[2][5][6][7]

Semantic evolution

In medieval Latin it meant a hill or small hill:^[3][8][1] a diploma of Henry II gives a hill as the southern boundary of a monastery's lands,^[8] and a charter of 1408 uses it in a boundary description.^[7] It is the source of Italian collina and French colline.^[9][2][7]

Timeline

• Late Latin – Innocentius, among the land surveyors, uses it of hilly ground above a farmstead.^[2][6][1]
• 1408 – A charter uses it in a boundary description.^[7]

Meanings

Noun

1. (Late Latin) Hilly ground, a stretch of hills.^{[6][5][10][4]}
2. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) A hill, a small hill.^{[2][3][8][7][1]}

Related words

• collis
• Italian collina
• French colline

Usage notes

The Colline gate of Rome (porta Collīna) and the Colline tribe (tribus Collīna) take their names from the adjective collīnus.^[11][10] Lewis & Short also record Collīna as a goddess of hills in Augustine's City of God, where other editions read Collātīna.^[6]

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
3. ^ a b c Niermeyer, J. F. (1976), Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden: Brill
4. ^ a b Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
5. ^ a b c Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
6. ^ a b c d Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
7. ^ a b c d e du Cange, Charles du Fresne, et al. (1883–1887), Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis, augmented ed. by Léopold Favre, Niort: L. Favre
8. ^ a b c Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch bis zum ausgehenden 13. Jahrhundert (1967–), Munich: C. H. Beck; Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
9. ^ Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
10. ^ a b Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
11. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press