colo
Portuguese
/ˈkɔ.lu/, /ˈkɔ.lo/
noun
Definitions
- lap upper legs of a seated person
- (anatomy) neck; collum part of body connecting the head and the trunk
- (skeleton) neck part of a bone that connects its head to its body
- (anatomy) cervix necklike portion of any part
- gap mountain or hill pass
- (botany) the channel of an archegonium
Etymology
Inherited from Old Portuguese colo inherited from Latin collum (neck, stem, throat).
Origin
Latin
collum
Gloss
neck, stem, throat
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
喉, 咽
Emoji
🦒 🧣
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- collum English
- quellio English
- angusticollis Latin
- brevicollis Latin
- carinicollis Latin
- collum Latin
- cribricollis Latin
- cylindricollis Latin
- decollo Latin
- decollāre Latin
- denticollis Latin
- fuscicollis Latin
- impressicollis Latin
- laticollis Latin
- levicollis Latin
- longicollis Latin
- maculicollis Latin
- nigricollis Latin
- nitidicollis Latin
- puncticollis Latin
- rotundicollis Latin
- ruficollis Latin
- rugicollis Latin
- sulcicollis Latin
- vitticollis Latin
- collo Italian
- girocollo Italian
- scavezzacollo Italian
- sopraccollo Italian
- tracollare Italian
- casse-cou French
- col French
- cou French
- décolletage French
- alzacuello Spanish, Castilian
- cuellilargo Spanish, Castilian
- cuello Spanish, Castilian
- degollar Spanish, Castilian
- descollar Spanish, Castilian
- tiracuello Spanish, Castilian
- *kwol-o- Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷel- Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷolso- Proto-Indo-European
- *kʷolsom Proto-Indo-European
- coleira Portuguese
- degolar Portuguese
- kolli Danish
- col Old French
- kolo Esperanto
- coll Catalan, Valencian
- degollar Catalan, Valencian
- colo Galician
- kwelyo Cebuano
- collet Norman
- colyi Norman
- kuwelyo Tagalog
- colo Old Portuguese
- còl Occitan
- còu Occitan
- cuel Friulian
- cuello Old Spanish
- coddu Sicilian
- coło Venetian
- cual Dalmatian
- kou Mauritian Creole
- cuollo Neapolitan
- collare LL
- collāre LL