colle

colle (countable and uncountable, plural colles)

1. Obsolete form of coal.

• IPA^(key): /kɔl/

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• Homophones: col, collent, colles, cols, khôlle

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

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 colle ― to ask a toughie

4. (school slang) detention

• coller
• pot de colle
• poser une colle
• sous-khôlle

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

colle

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

• “colle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

colle

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔl.le/
• Rhymes: -ɔlle
• Hyphenation: còl‧le

colle m (plural colli)

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

• collina

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔl.le/
• Rhymes: -ɔlle
• Hyphenation: còl‧le

colle f

1. plural of colla

Contraction of con +‎ le.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkol.le/, /ˌko.le/^[1]
• Rhymes: -olle, -ole
• Hyphenation: cól‧le

colle

1. (dated) Contraction of con le; with the

• While in use in the spoken language, its use is somewhat old-fashioned in the written language.

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

• -cello

colle

1. ablative singular of collis

Borrowed from Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ).

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

1. bile (bodily fluid)