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(Inglese)

(declension-2, neuter) The neck or throat.
(declension-2, neuter) A symbol of servitude.
(declension-2, neuter) A symbol of life.
(declension-2, metonymically, neuter) The neck of a flask or bottle; the neck of the poppy; the middle part of Mount Parnassus.

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[ˈkɔl.lũː]

Uncertain, but perhaps from Proto-Italic *kʷolsom, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷolso- (“neck”, literally “that on which the head turns”), from *kʷel- (“to turn”). Typologically compare Old Armenian պարանոց (paranocʻ, “neck”); Russian во́рот (vórot), воротни́к (vorotník) (related to верте́ть (vertétʹ)). See also Old English heals (“neck, prow of a ship”) (whence English halse (“neck, throat”)), Middle Dutch and Old Norse hals (“neck”).