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From Ancient Greekκόλυμβος(kólumbos, “a diver”), from κολυμβάω(kolumbáō, “dive, plunge headlong, swim”). (Aristophanes and others use the word κολυμβίς(kolumbís, “diver, sea-bird”).)
“columba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“columba”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
columba in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
columba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
“columba”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
