columnar

English

Etymology

From Latin columnāris.^[1] By surface analysis, column +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈlʌmnɚ/

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Adjective

columnar (not comparable)

1. Having the shape of a column.
2. Constructed with columns.
3. (microanatomy) Of or pertaining to an epithelium with has cells taller than they are wide (column-shaped).

   Coordinate term: cuboidal

   • 1880, Arthur Gamgee, A Text-book of the physiological chemistry […] :

     where a villus comes next to a gland the short cubical cells of the gland may be traced into the columnar cells of the villus , the hyaline border becoming more marked

Derived terms

• bicolumnar
• circumcolumnar
• columnarity
• columnarize
• columnarly
• extracolumnar
• half columnar
• intercolumnar
• intracolumnar
• microcolumnar
• multicolumnar
• nanocolumnar
• noncolumnar
• pseudocolumnar
• semicolumnar
• squamocolumnar
• stratified columnar epithelium
• subcolumnar
• supercolumnar
• supracolumnar
• transcolumnar
• tricolumnar

Translations

Having the shape of a column

French: colonnaire (fr) German: säulenförmig (de) Greek: κιονοειδής (el) (kionoeidís) Ancient: κιονοειδής (kionoeidḗs) Hungarian: oszlopos (hu) Swedish: pelarformig Welsh: colofnog, pilerog

Constructed with column

References

1. “columnar, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Latin

Etymology

Substantivation of apocopated columnāre, nominative neuter singular of columnāris (“columnar”) or directly from columna +‎ -ar. Columns were mostly made of marble, whence the name.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koˈlum.nar/, [kɔˈɫ̪ʊmnär]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈlum.nar/, [koˈlumnär]

Noun

columnar n (genitive columnāris); third declension

1. marble quarry

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	columnar	columnāria
genitive	columnāris	columnārium
dative	columnārī	columnāribus
accusative	columnar	columnāria
ablative	columnārī	columnāribus
vocative	columnar	columnāria

References

• “columnar”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• columnar in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Adjective

columnar m or f (masculine and feminine plural columnares)

1. columnar