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:

     No sooner does a little particle of food touch the edge of the delicate collar which surrounds the collum, than it adheres to it and is carried down by currents, that circulate up one side of the collar and down the other, to the end of the collum, in which, along with an accompanying drop of water, it becomes at once engulped^[sic].

2. (botany) A collar[1]

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

• Cullom

• collus (pre-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 (paranocʻ, “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]
• (modern Italianate 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).

• succollō (verb)

• “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