collabor

Latin

Etymology

con- (together) +‎ lābor (glide, slip, fall)

Pronunciation

Verb

collābor (present infinitive collābī, perfect active collāpsus sum); third conjugation, deponent

  1. to collapse, fall in

Conjugation

This verb takes the future passive participle collābundus instead of *collābendus.

Derived terms

Descendants

Note: no inherited descendants. Mostly borrowed through its past participle, as if from the frequentative *collāpsāre.

  • English: collapse
  • French: collapser
  • German: kollabieren
  • Italian: collassare
  • Portuguese: colapsar, colabar
  • Spanish: colapsar

References

  • collabor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • collabor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.