columna

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See also: columnă

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin columna.

Noun

columna f (plural columnes)

  1. column

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin columna.

Pronunciation

Noun

columna f (plural columnes)

  1. column
  2. (chess) file

Derived terms

Further reading

Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin columna.

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)

Noun

columna f (plural columnas)

  1. column

Derived terms

Interlingua

Noun

columna (plural columnas)

  1. column

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Originally a collateral form of columen, contraction culmen (a pillar, top, crown, summit).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

columna f (genitive columnae); first declension

  1. column, pillar
  2. waterspout
  3. (New Latin) column as in a book
    Synonym: pāgina

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative columna columnae
genitive columnae columnārum
dative columnae columnīs
accusative columnam columnās
ablative columnā columnīs
vocative columna columnae

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “columen, -inis (> Derivatives: > columna)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 127

Further reading

  • columna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • columna”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • columna 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)
  • columna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • columna”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • columna”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Noun

columna f (plural columnas)

  1. Obsolete spelling of coluna.

Romanian

Pronunciation

Noun

columna f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of columnă

Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin columna.[1] Doublet of coluna (a semi-learned variant) and possibly curueña and cureña.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /koˈlumna/
  • Audio (La Paz, Bolivia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -umna
  • Syllabification: co‧lum‧na

Noun

columna f (plural columnas)

  1. (architecture) a column; a circular support
  2. (chess) file

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “columna”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

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