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colle

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See also: col·le, collé, and Colle

English

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Noun

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colle (countable and uncountable, plural colles)

  1. Obsolete form of coal.

French

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin colla, from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, glue). Compare Italian colla, Portuguese and Spanish cola.

Noun

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colle f (plural colles)

  1. glue
  2. (France, education) oral examination at a prépa or during the PASS
    Synonym: khôlle
    • 2010, Alexandre Devaux, Tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur la prépa scientifique, Dunod, →ISBN, page 79:
      La khôlle (ou colle) est une interrogation orale d’une heure devant un tableau. On vous donne un exercice et vous avez pour mission de le résoudre (même si ce n’est pas le plus important).
      The khôlle (or colle) is an hour-long oral examination in front of a blackboard. You are given an exercise and your mission is to solve it (although solving it is not the most important thing).
  3. (by extension, figurative) conundrum, stumper (difficult question)
    poser une colleto ask a toughie
  4. (school slang) detention
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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colle

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

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Galician

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Verb

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colle

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

Italian

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Etymology 1

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From Latin collem (hill). Cognate with English hill.

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Noun

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colle m (plural colli)

  1. (geomorphology) hill
  2. pass (through hills)
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Further reading

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  • colle1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • colle2 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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colle f

  1. plural of colla

Etymology 3

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Contraction of con +‎ le.

Pronunciation

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Contraction

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colle

  1. (dated) Contraction of con le; with the
Usage notes
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  • While in use in the spoken language, its use is somewhat old-fashioned in the written language.

References

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  1. ^ colle in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading

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  • colle in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

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Latin

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Noun

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colle

  1. ablative singular of collis

Old French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ).

Noun

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colle oblique singularf (oblique plural colles, nominative singular colle, nominative plural colles)

  1. bile (bodily fluid)