colombe
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old French colombe, from Latin columba. Cf. also the masculine Old French form colomb, coulon.
Noun edit
colombe f (plural colombes)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Old French colombe, from Latin columna (the -b- resulted from a difficulty in pronouncing the Latin consonant cluster -mn-). Doublet of colonne.
Noun edit
colombe f (plural colombes)
Further reading edit
- “colombe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
colombe f
Norman edit
Etymology edit
From Old French colombe, from Latin columba.
Noun edit
colombe f (plural colombes)