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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]

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