collar: [13] Etymologically, a collar is simply something worn round one’s ‘neck’. The word comes via Anglo-Norman coler from Latin collāre, which meant ‘necklace’ as well as ‘part of a garment that encircles the neck’ (both senses have come through into English, although the latter has predominated). Collāre was a derivative of collum ‘neck’, which came from an earlier base *kols- that also produced German and Swedish hals ‘neck’.
It has been speculated that it goes back ultimately to Indo-European *qwelo- ‘go round’, the root from which we get English wheel – the underlying notion being that the neck is that on which the head turns. => décolleté, hauberk, wheel
collar (n.)
c. 1300, "neck armor, gorget," from Old French coler "neck, collar" (12c., Modern French collier), from Latin collare "necklace, band or chain for the neck," from collum "the neck," from PIE *kwol-o- "neck" (cognates: Old Norse and Middle Dutch hals "neck"), literally "that on which the head turns," from root *kwel- (1) "move round, turn about" (see cycle (n.)). Late 14c. as "border at the neck of a garment."
collar (v.)
1550s, "to grab (someone) by the collar or neck," from collar (n.). Meaning "to capture" is attested from 1610s. Related: Collared; collaring. As a past participle adjective, collared "wearing a collar" is from late 14c.
例文
1. Mike kept snatching him up by the collar and jerking him up.
マイクは彼の襟をつかんで彼を上に突き上げた。
2.I stepped outside and pulled up my collar against the cold mist.
私は外に出て、襟を立てて冷たい霧を防ぎます。
3.He wore a plain blue shirt，open at the collar .
彼は地味な青いシャツを着て、襟元が開いている。
4.The collar was embroidered with very small red strawberries.
襟には非常に小さな赤いイチゴが刺繍されている。
5.He buttoned his collar tightly round his thick neck.