columbine

See also: Columbine

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒləmbaɪn/

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Etymology 1

From the Latin colombina herba (“dove-like plant”), the flower being likened to five clustered pigeons.

Noun

columbine (plural columbines)

1. Any plant of the genus Aquilegia, having distinctive bell-shaped flowers with spurs on each petal.

Translations

any plant of the genus Aquilegia

• Albanian: kanilqyqe
• Armenian: ջրընկալ (hy) (ǰrənkal)
• Basque: kuku-belarra
• Belarusian: вадазбо́р (vadazbór), о́рлик (órlik)
• Breton: beskenn-an-Itron-Varia
• Bulgarian: кандилка (bg) (kandilka)
• Catalan: corniol m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 耬斗菜 (zh) (lóudǒucài), 耧斗菜 (zh) (lóudǒucài)

• Czech: orlíček (cs)
• Danish: akeleje
• Dutch: akelei (nl)
• Esperanto: akvilegio
• Estonian: kurekell
• Faroese: akkuleya
• Finnish: akileija (fi)
• French: ancolie (fr) f
• Galician: arreitó (gl) m, paxariños (gl) m pl
• Georgian: წყალიკრეფია (c̣q̇aliḳrepia)
• German: Akelei (de) f
• Greek: ακουιλέγκια (akouilégkia)
• Hungarian: harangláb (hu), sasfű
• Icelandic: vatnsberi (is), vatnsberar pl
• Ido: aquilegio (io)
• Irish: colaimbín
• Italian: colombina (it) f, aquilegia (it)
• Japanese: 苧環 (odamaki), オダマキ (odamaki)
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• Kashubian: kukùlëca
• Korean: 매발톱꽃 (maebaltopkkot)
• Latin: aquilegia
• Latvian: ozolīte
• Lithuanian: sinavadas
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: boerenklokjen (Veluws), klokjen (Veluws), akkelei(e) (Veluws), zwärfbloeme (Veluws), klokkebloeme (Drents)

• Macedonian: кандилка (kandilka)
• Manx: lus y chalmane, lus yn ushtey vio
• Occitan: corniol
• Polish: orlik (pl)
• Portuguese: aquilégia (pt)
• Romanian: căldărușă (ro) f
• Russian: водосбо́р (ru) (vodosbór)
• Saterland Frisian: klokkebloume
• Scottish Gaelic: lus a' chlamain
• Serbo-Croatian: kandilka (sh), pakujac (sh)
• Slovak: orlíček
• Slovene: orlica (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: akelaja

• Spanish: colombina (es) f, aguileña (es)
• Swedish: akleja (sv)
• Turkish: hasekiküpesi (tr)
• Ukrainian: водозбі́р (vodozbír)
• Welsh: troed-y-golomen

Etymology 2

From Middle English columbyne, from Old French columbin (French colombin), from Latin columbinus, from columba (“dove, pigeon”).

Adjective

columbine (comparative more columbine, superlative most columbine)

1. (archaic) Pertaining to a dove or pigeon.
   • late 1500s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Merchant's Tale:

     Com forþ now, wiþ þyne eyen columbyn! / How fairer been þy brestes þan is wyn!

   • 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:

     It is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with the columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent.

Translations

pertaining to doves or pigeons

• Bulgarian: гълъбов (gǎlǎbov)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鴿的／鸽的, 鸽的 (gē de), 鴿似的／鸽似的 (gē shìde), 鸽似的 (gē shìde), 鴿色的／鸽色的, 鸽色的 (gē sè de)

• Esperanto: kolomba
• Finnish: kyyhkys- (fi)
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• German: (quasi-prefix, e.g. Taubenblume) Tauben (de), (quasi-prefix, e.g. Tauben-Skabiose) Tauben-
• Russian: голуби́ный (ru) (golubínyj)
• Volapük: pijunik