columba

See also: Columba, and columbă

Latin

columba (a dove)

Alternative forms

• colonbu (Vulgar Latin)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κόλυμβος (kólumbos, “a diver”), from κολυμβάω (kolumbáō, “dive, plunge headlong, swim”). (Aristophanes [Birds, 304] and others use the word κολυμβίς (kolumbís, “diver, sea-bird”).)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koˈlum.ba/, [kɔˈɫ̪ʊmbä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈlum.ba/, [koˈlumbä]

Noun

columba f (genitive columbae); first declension (masculine columbus)

1. dove, pigeon (sacred bird of Venus)
2. a term of endearment

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	columba	columbae
genitive	columbae	columbārum
dative	columbae	columbīs
accusative	columbam	columbās
ablative	columbā	columbīs
vocative	columba	columbae

Related terms

• columbārium
• columbārius
• columbīnus
• columbus

 

Descendants

• Catalan: coloma
• Galician: comba
• Italian: colomba
• Occitan: colomba
• Romanian: columbă
• Romansch: columba
• Sicilian: culumma
• → English: Columba
• → French: Colombe
• → Old Irish: columb, colum
  • Middle Irish: colum
    • Irish: colm
    • Manx: colum
    • Scottish Gaelic: calum
• → Spanish: Columba
• → Translingual: Columba
• → Welsh: colomen

See also

• palumbus

References

• “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

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin columba.

Noun

columba f (plural columbas)

1. dove, pigeon