colle
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]colle (countable and uncountable, plural colles)
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Vulgar Latin colla, from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”). Compare Italian colla, Portuguese and Spanish cola.
Noun
[edit]colle f (plural colles)
- glue
- (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).
- (by extension, figurative) conundrum, stumper (difficult question)
- poser une colle ― to ask a toughie
- (school slang) detention
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]colle
- inflection of coller:
Further reading
[edit]- “colle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
[edit]Verb
[edit]colle
- inflection of coller:
Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Latin collem (“hill”). Cognate with English hill.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]colle m (plural colli)
- (geomorphology) hill
- pass (through hills)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- 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
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]colle f
Etymology 3
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Contraction
[edit]colle
Usage notes
[edit]- While in use in the spoken language, its use is somewhat old-fashioned in the written language.
References
[edit]- ^ colle in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Further reading
[edit]- colle in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Noun
[edit]colle
Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ).
Noun
[edit]colle oblique singular, f (oblique plural colles, nominative singular colle, nominative plural colles)
- bile (bodily fluid)
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- Rhymes:Italian/ɔlle
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- Rhymes:Italian/olle
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- Rhymes:Italian/ole
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