columna

See also: columnă

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin columna.

Noun

columna f (plural columnes)

1. column

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Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin columna.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /kuˈlum.nə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /koˈlum.na/

Noun

columna f (plural columnes)

1. column
2. (chess) file

Derived terms

• columna vertebral
• columnes d'Hèrcules

Further reading

• “columna” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin columna.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

columna f (plural columnas)

1. column

Derived terms

• columna vertebral

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Interlingua

Noun

columna (plural columnas)

1. column

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Latin

Alternative forms

• colum., col. (column as in a book)

Etymology

Originally a collateral form of columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /koˈlum.na/, [kɔˈɫ̪ʊmnä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈlum.na/, [koˈlumnä]

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.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	columna	columnae
Genitive	columnae	columnārum
Dative	columnae	columnīs
Accusative	columnam	columnās
Ablative	columnā	columnīs
Vocative	columna	columnae

Derived terms

• columnāris
• columnārium
• columnārius
• columnātiō
• columnātus
• columnifer

Related terms

• columnārium

Descendants

• Aromanian: culoanã
• → Catalan: columna
• Dalmatian: chilauna
• → Galician: columna
• → Old Irish: columan
  • Irish: colún
• Padanian:
  • Romagnol: clôna, culôna
• Italian: colonna
  • → Greek: κολόνα (kolóna)
  • → Lithuanian: kolona
  • → Romanian: coloană
  • → Russian: коло́нна (kolónna)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: kolona
• → Old French: columne
  • → Middle English: columpne, colompne, columne, columpe
    • English: column
    • Scots: column
  • French: colonne
• Old French: colombe
  • French: colombe
• Portuguese: coluna
• Romanian: corună, → columnă
• Sicilian: culunna, culonna (recent variant)
• Spanish: cureña, → coluna, → columna
• → Welsh: colofn, colon

See also

• (column as in a book): pagina (pag., p.)

References

• “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

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Portuguese

Noun

columna f (plural columnas)

1. Obsolete spelling of coluna

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [koˈlumna]

Noun

columna f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of columnă

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• coluna (uncommon, archaic)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈlumna/, [koˈlũm.na]

• Audio (La Paz, Bolivia)

  (file)

Noun

columna f (plural columnas)

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

Derived terms

• Columnas de Hércules
• columna vertebral
• quinta columna

 

Related terms

• columnata

Further reading

• “columna”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014