collis

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈkɔ.ʎis]

collis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of collar

From Proto-Italic *kolnis, from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥Hnís (“hill”), from the root *kelH-. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *hulliz (English hill).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkol.lis/, [ˈkɔlːʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkol.lis/, [ˈkɔlːis]

collis m (genitive collis); third declension

1. a hill
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.419–420:

     Iamque ascendēbant collem, quī plūrimus urbī
     imminet, adversāsque aspectat dēsuper arcēs.

     And now they were climbing the hill, which menaces high above the city, and looks down upon the opposite defenses.

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or -ī).

• collīnus
• colliculus

• “collis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “collis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• collis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a gentle ascent: collis leniter ab infimo acclivis (opp. leniter a summo declivis)
    
  • a hill lies to the north: est a septentrionibus collis
    
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “cŏllis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 904