Where does “collage” come from?
Collage comes from French collage, combining French coller (to glue) from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kolla, glue) and the French suffix -age.
collage (English): A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a...
Definitions
- A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a...
Ancestry of “collage”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | collage | collage; montage |
| 2 | French | coller | to stick, to glue; se coller; To be sticky; to... |
| 3 | French | colle | glue; first-person singular present indicative of... |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | colla | nominative plural of collum; accusative plural of... |
| 5 | Latin | cuculla | Alternative form of cucullus |
| 6 | Latin | cucullus | a covering for the head, hood, cowl; a conical... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | kuH-l- | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kewH- | to cover, bedeck; cover |