collum

Borrowed from Latin collum (“the neck”). Doublet of col.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒl.əm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑl.əm/
• Homophone: column
• Rhymes: -ɒləm

collum (plural colla)

1. (anatomy) A neck, cervix, or neckline part or process.
   • 1882, Frank Coles Phillips, Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists' Society, volume 3, page 25:

2. (botany) A collar[1]

• “collum”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• Cullom

• collus (ante-classical)

Uncertain, but perhaps from Proto-Italic *kʷolsom, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷolso- (“neck”, literally “that on which the head turns”), from *kʷel- (“to turn”). Typologically compare Old Armenian պարանոց (paranocʿ, “neck”).

See also Old English heals (“neck, prow of a ship”) (whence English halse (“neck, throat”)), Middle Dutch and Old Norse hals (“neck”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkol.lum/, [ˈkɔlːʲʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkol.lum/, [ˈkɔlːum]

collum n (genitive collī); second declension

1. (anatomy) (of men and animals) The neck or throat.

   Synonym: cervix

2. (in particular):
   1. A symbol of servitude.
   2. A symbol of life.
3. (metonymically) The neck of a flask or bottle; the neck of the poppy; the middle part of Mount Parnassus.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “collum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “collum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• collum 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)
• collum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the town stands on rising ground: oppidum colli impositum est