English
col
Col comes from French col ‘collar’, and goes back to Latin collum ‘neck’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcollum‘neck’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400col
- Frenchc. 1600–presentcol‘collar’
- Englishearliest quotation 1999col
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEcollum‘neck’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400col
- Frenchc. 1600–presentcol‘collar’
- Englishearliest quotation 1999col
Earliest quotation: 1999, Harish Kapadia, Ascents in the Panch Chuli Group: “We spent half an hour on the summit before…”
Linked words
through Latin collum ‘neck’
Today it means
noun A dip on a mountain ridge between two peaks.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin collum / col