colline French · revision 17676

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1555, Pierre Belon|origins=la collis}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /kɔ.lin/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''colline''' ''f'' (plural collines)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la-lat|collīna|t=hilly ground, hill]], probably through [[it|collina]], in use since the 14th century; the naturalist Pierre Belon, who first used it, had travelled in Italy.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Wiktionary) The Late Latin noun comes from a phrase meaning “hilly places”, made with [[m|la|collīnus|t=of a hill]], from [[m|la|collis|t=hill]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) Bloch and Wartburg trace the phrase to the land-surveyors of the late Empire and think the French word is not a borrowing but a regional word of the west.^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)

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+ The Latin noun belongs to an Indo-European root also seen in [[lt|kalnas|alt=kálnas]], [[en|hill]], [[grc|κολώνη|tr=kolṓnē]] and [[ru|холм|tr=xolm|t=hill]].^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Pierre Belon's ''Nature des oyseaux'' (1555) is the first text to use it, for a low hill.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The meaning has stayed that of a low, rounded rise of ground.^(DHLF 1992)^(Petit Robert 2007) Oudin records the 16th-century slang ''gaigner la colline'', to run away.^(Littré 1873) In the French of Rwanda and Burundi ''colline'' names a geographical unit with a certain social and economic unity.^(DHLF 1992) The rare diminutive [[collinette]] (1596–1614) and the adjective [[collinaire]] (1838) are derived from it.^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1555 – First record, in Pierre Belon.^(TLFi)

+ * 1596–1614 – The diminutive ''collinette''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1838 – ''Collinaire''.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|hill]], a low rounded rise of ground with gentle slopes.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''Les sept collines de Rome'': the seven hills of Rome.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # ''(Rwanda, Burundi)'' A rural community and territorial unit.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[coteau]]

+ * [[la|collis]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}