colla

colla

1. plural of collum

• lo-cal, local

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkɔ.ʎə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkɔ.ʎa]

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Deverbal from collar, of uncertain origin, perhaps from coll (“neck”).

colla f (plural colles)

1. group, gang, band

   Synonyms: grup, banda, ardat

2. a team of practitioners of certain traditional activities, such as castells building or sardana dancing

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

colla

1. inflection of collar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “colla”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “colla” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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colla

1. third-person singular past historic of coller

• local

colla

1. inflection of coller:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• colna (superseded)

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌl̪ˠə/^[1]

colla

1. inflection of colainn:
   1. genitive singular
   2. all cases plural

Contraction of Italian con (“with”) and la (“the”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌkol.la/, /ˌko.la/^[1]
• Rhymes: -olla, -ola
• Hyphenation: cól‧la

colla

1. (dated) contraction of con la; with the

From Vulgar Latin colla, from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”). Compare French colle, Sicilian coḍḍa, Spanish and Portuguese cola.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔl.la/
• Rhymes: -ɔlla
• Hyphenation: còl‧la

colla f (plural colle)

1. glue or similar sticky material
2. size (substance)
3. (nautical) a rope used for lowering the sails

• → Ottoman Turkish: قولا (kola)
  • Turkish: kola

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔl.la/
• Rhymes: -ɔlla
• Hyphenation: còl‧la

colla

1. inflection of collare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• alcol, callo, callo-

colla

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of collum

• "colla", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

colla f (4th declension)

1. inch

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• Syllabification: co‧lla

Probably borrowed from Catalan colla.^[1]

colla f (plural collas)

1. A team of dockworkers or stevedores

Ultimately from Latin collum, however the o in place of the expected diphthong ue (compare inherited doublet cuello) implies borrowing from another Romance language; however, no other Romance language is known to have such a word with a similar sense.^[2]

colla f (plural collas)

1. (historical) gorget (piece of armour for the throat)

   Synonyms: gorjal, gorguera

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