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colla

colla is the plural of collum.

Meaning of collum

Noun

collum (plural colla)

  1. A neck, cervix, or neckline part or process.
    • 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...1882, Frank Coles Phillips, Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists' Society, volume 3, page 25
  2. A collar

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Noun capitalized: Colla

Colla pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) An indigenous people of Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile.

Proper noun capitalized: Colla

Colla (plural Collas)

  1. A surname from Italian.

Forms of colla

Noun
alternative formKolla
alternative formQulla
Proper noun
pluralCollas

Origin of colla

Borrowed from Italian Colla.

Questions about colla

What does colla mean?
Colla means an indigenous people of Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile.
What is colla the plural of?
Colla is the plural of collum.
What part of speech is colla?
Colla can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near colla in the dictionary

  1. Colkirk
  2. coll
  3. coll'arco
  4. coll'ottava
  5. coll.
  6. colla
  7. collab
  8. collab.
  9. collabbed
  10. collabber
  11. collabbers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colla (page history and authors); Colla (page history and authors); collum (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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