colum

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See also: Colum

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Perhaps related to quālus/quālum (wicker basket). No widely agreeable etymology has been suggested for either word, but confer Sanskrit चालन (cālana, sieve, strainer).

Noun

cōlum n (genitive cōlī); second declension

  1. colander, strainer
  2. (poetic) a wicker basket for catching fish
Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cōlum cōla
Genitive cōlī cōlōrum
Dative cōlō cōlīs
Accusative cōlum cōla
Ablative cōlō cōlīs
Vocative cōlum cōla

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Variant form of cōlon, from κῶλον (kôlon).

Noun

cōlum n (genitive cōlī); second declension

  1. Alternative form of cōlon
Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cōlum cōla
Genitive cōlī cōlōrum
Dative cōlō cōlīs
Accusative cōlum cōla
Ablative cōlō cōlīs
Vocative cōlum cōla

References

  • colum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • colum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • colum 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)
  • colum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • 6 per cent: usurae semissium (Colum.)
  • colum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • colum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin