different between collis vs colin

Catalan

Verb

collis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive form of collar

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kl?Hnís (“hill”), from the root *kelH-. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *hulliz (English hill).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kol.lis/, [?k?l???s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kol.lis/, [?k?l?is]

Noun

collis m (genitive collis); third declension

1. a hill

Declension

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

Derived terms

• coll?nus
• colliculus

Descendants

• Catalan: coll
• Galician: colado
• Italian: colle
• Portuguese: cole
• Sardinian: codhu
• Spanish: collado

References

• 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?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

English

Etymology

French colin, properly a diminutive of Colas, contracted from Nicolas (“Nicholas”).

Noun

colin (plural colins)

1. The American quail or bobwhite, or related species.
   • 1859, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Illustrated natural history of the animal kingdom (volume 2, page 244)

     To this belongs the Colin or Quail of New England and Partridge of the South […]

   • 1923, Thomas Alfred Coward, Bird haunts and nature memories (page 206)

     Many efforts have been made to improve and increase the variety of our game stock, but whereas the Barbary partridge, the willow grouse, the colin, bob-white, button quail, and even tinamou have been tried and failed […]

Anagrams

• LOINC, Licon, Nicol, clino-, locin

Catalan

Verb

colin

1. third-person plural present subjunctive form of colar
2. third-person plural imperative form of colar

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.l??/

Noun

colin m (plural colins)

1. coalfish

Synonyms

• lieu noir

Further reading

• “colin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).